On Thu, 29 Jan 2009 15:28:48 +0100, you wrote:
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.
It is removed as soon as the last package owning a directory is removed. In my eyes that is a clean solution.
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.
It doesn't have to be conflicts, see it as a form of sharing. Take for instance Perl packages with names in the same object hierarchy (something like package::inspect::foo, package::inspect::bar and package:inspect::clouseau). These packages will share the package/inspect directories and it would remove flexibility if only one of them owned them. To solve such cases you'd need meta packages that do nothing more than own directories and that would imho quickly lead to an exploding number of packages. Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help@opensuse.org