[Fedora-packaging] Should /usr/share/aclocal be in filesystem?
Patrice Dumas
pertusus at free.fr
Thu Oct 25 20:04:14 UTC 2007
On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 02:24:35PM -0400, 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,
I don't think every package shipping an autoconf macro should
mandatorily depend in automake. It should be left to the packager.
So if /usr/share/aclocal isn't owned by the filesystem package, packages
have to own /usr/share/aclocal.
--
Pat
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