Multiple package ownership

Matthias Clasen mclasen at redhat.com
Thu Apr 9 17:57:53 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 06:37 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > That is correct.  All the packages that install things in this directory must own it so it will only go away when the last of them is uninstalled.
> > 
> > If you find a package that own a file in that directory and does not own it, then you should indeed file a bug for a missing ownership.
> > 
> 
> ... or the package has a dependency on one of those packages (usually
> hicolor-icon-theme).  Either is acceptable practice.

hicolor-icon-theme is the owner of that directory. 
All the others are just squatters.




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