On 1/29/2009 at 3:23 PM, Suman Manjunath
wrote: Hi.. On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 13:14 +0100, Marcus Meissner wrote:
The thing is that the first one is "owned" by libgnome and the second one is owned by gtk-doc. However, now, many packages don't need libgnome and still put files in /usr/share/gnome/help and it's bad to require the gtk-doc package at runtime only to have /usr/share/gtk-doc existing.
AFAIK, you don't need gtk-doc at runtime only to have /usr/share/gtk-doc existing. If a package has foo.bar under /usr/share/gtk-doc/ , that package would create /usr/share/gtk-doc/ if it didn't already exist.
Even though this is true, the folder would not be removed when you remove the package. That's why it's not a clean solution.
Easy, a directory can be owned by multiple packages. Just files cannot..
True. But is this advised? Personally, I think multiple packages owning the same directory is not good. :-)
I tend to the same direction, but in conflicting situations like this one I'd probably prefer having the directory owned by more than one package than not having it owned at all by the end. Dominique -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org