Re: What's worse: unowned directories or multiple owners?

[Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 freenet de>]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:32 -0700, Orion Poplawski wrote:
> Maybe the third time is the charm:
> 
> I want to install a file into /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/ but I don't 
> want to Requires: /usr/share/emacs/site-list/.
It would have to be
Requires(pre): usr/share/emacs/site-list
because otherwise rpm won't be able to handle this correctly.

>   Do I own 
> /usr/share/emacs... in my package or do I leave open the possibility 
> that the dir is unowned if emacs in not installed?
I definitely prefer multiple ownerships on dirs, because otherwise 
"rpm -e multiple packages" won't handle it correctly and can cause
orphaned directories to stay around in a system.

Of cause there exists the permission's issue on multiply owned dirs, but
if packages are packaged correctly and don't try to play tricks with
ownerships/permissions, this should be a non-issue.

Ralf