Multiple package ownership

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 9 08:37:57 UTC 2009


Am Mittwoch, den 08.04.2009, 06:37 -0700 schrieb Toshio Kuratomi:
> Fernando Nasser wrote:
> > That is correct.  All the packages that install things in this
> directory must own it so it will only go away when the last of them is
> uninstalled.
> > 
> > If you find a package that own a file in that directory and does not
> own it, then you should indeed file a bug for a missing ownership.
> > 
> 
> ... or the package has a dependency on one of those packages (usually
> hicolor-icon-theme).  Either is acceptable practice.

Since all of the mentioned programs are gtk based and gtk2 requires
hicolor-icon-theme we have a valid dependency chain here.

Regrads,
Christoph





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