Directories not owned by package

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 15:08:25 +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:

> Well, if anyone cared about it the solution is simple - just make rpm
> refuse to install packages if they make use of unclaimed directories.

Won't always be appropriate. There are packages with optional
dependencies, which means they include files to be used together with some
other component that is not a strict dependency. You may install it later
or remove it again.  Such packages are permitted to install into
directories which they do not own, and nobody cares whether non-existing
directories may be created inaccessibly because the files within are of no
use unless another package is installed, too. As soon as that missing
package, which owns those directories, is installed, the directories get
proper permissions and everything will be usable. If it isn't installed,
removal of the former one would not remove some empty directories, and
basicly, that's the only problem.

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