art of packaging: fluxbox-pulseaudio

[Andreas Bierfert]

On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 20:22:16 +0200
Karel Zak <kzak at redhat.com> wrote:

> 
>  # rpm -ql fluxbox-pulseaudio
>  ... it means the package contains one empty file. Is it really normal
>  that we configure our system by "yum install/remove"? Really?

It is not only an empty file. It requires the necessary PA packages and triggers
automatic PA loading on session starts.

Please see [1] and [2] for some more background information.

Regards,
Andreas

[1] - http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/fluxbox/fluxbox.spec?view=markup
[2] - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=388971
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