ville skytta iki fi (Ville Skyttä) writes: >> >> +1, although I thought that already is a policy at least in Extras. >> >> But not _all_ directories it installs, only those that are not >> >> owned by its prerequisite packages. >> >> Exactly; and to nitpick: simple 'Requires:' do not suffice, but >> 'Requires(pre):' (and Requires(postun): ones) are needed. > > Using context marked dependencies like Requires(pre) to "solve" this is > abuse, please don't do that. Why abuse? There is no other way to say 'I require directory /foo before my files will be installed' for a package. rpm could introduce a special 'filesystem' classifier so that the two 'Requires(pre|postun)' can be replaced by a single one. But that's not backward compatible and will probably never be implemented. > Plain Requires is fine as long as there are no dependency loops > involved. Why should I trust in some preconditions which can never be guaranted instead of enforcing the correct behavior? Enrico
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