Directories not owned by package

[Michael Schwendt]

On Fri, 16 Jan 2004 10:35:05 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Le ven 16/01/2004 à 01:12, Michael Schwendt a écrit :
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:08:25 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > 
> > > Well, if anyone cared about it the solution is simple - just make rpm
> > > refuse to install packages if they make use of unclaimed directories.
> > 
> > Won't always be appropriate. There are packages with optional
> > dependencies, which means they include files to be used together with some
> > other component that is not a strict dependency. 
> 
> Then wouldn't it be appropriate that *both* packages own these
> directories ? Since you are not enforcing any ordering anyway, the
> symlinks issue is moot.

If both packages owned the directories, a query like "which package owns
directory /foo?" would give worse results.

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