[Fedora-packaging] Should /usr/share/aclocal be in filesystem?

Orion Poplawski orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Oct 25 19:02:11 UTC 2007


Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
> Technically, we're not really changing our stance here. 
> 
> If all of the packages putting aclocal bits are -devel packages, then it
> should be ok to let automake own that directory, and have those -devel
> packages depend on automake. If we've got non-devel packages doing this,
> then we need to look into moving that directory ownership to something
> more universal, like filesystem.

It was a -devel package in question, so we'll have it require automake ( 
though it still rankles a little - the -devel package is easily used 
without automake).

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