Am 08.02.2014 17:20, schrieb Guido Berhoerster:
They are stable as long as the alternative path remains stable, but are ultimately managed by update-alternatives and not controlled by rpm itself since update-alternatives will happily overwrite symlinks if they don't point to the alternative.
If they don't point to the alternative, the rpm is uninstalled.
Apart from making that obvious in the specfile it also has the practical side effect that in order to change an alternative name one only has to adjust the update-alternatives call when using Fedora's method of ghosting or Debians practice of omitting alternative links rather than also having to adjust the filelist and symlink creation when following our guidelines. I suppose that's why Fedora and Debian-based distros ghost or omit the symlinks.
I don't think debian has the concept of %ghost, but I can be wrong. Greetings, Stephan -- Ma muaß weiterkämpfen, kämpfen bis zum Umfalln, a wenn die ganze Welt an Arsch offen hat, oder grad deswegn. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org