Re: Core packages are using %config for files being installed under /usr

[Rex Dieter <rdieter math unl edu>]

Chip Coldwell wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:41:23AM -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> > > Parag N(पराग़) wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >  While reviewing some fonts-* packages , I saw files being installed
> > > > under /usr are marked as %config in their SPECS as shown below
> > > > %config(noreplace) %verify(not md5 size mtime) %{ttfontdir}/fonts.alias
> > > ...
> > > > How to handle this issue?
> > > IMO, the fonts.alias example is a fair use of %config that's ok in my book.
> > But we do want /usr to be "stateless". Although I can see that fixing
> > the fonts.alias issues may be non-trivial.
>
> I agree.  Ideally, /usr could be a filesystem mounted read-only.  Somebody 
> shoulda told those X11 guys that.

OTOH, fonts.alias is way-old legacy pre-fontconfig stuff anyway.  Is xfs 
gone yet? (:

-- Rex