[Bug 172900] Review Request: htop

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Summary: Review Request: htop


https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=172900





------- Additional Comments From paul at city-fan.org  2005-11-11 11:59 EST -------
(In reply to comment #8)
> > how often do package names change?
> Yep, but:
> > there is PACKAGE NAME in this place, and it is not a word which just matches
> with package's name occasionally.
> is a main reason for this. (IMHO).
> 
> > the binary name, the manpage etc.
> Therefore people use %{_bindir}/* , %{_mandir}/*/* , %{_initrddir}/* etc.
> 
> It is not just my opinion, I see such approach at least in half of packages 
> which I looked in...

This is also an unfortunate choice IMHO. Such vague wildcarding can lead to
problems where a later version of a package from upstream may include files with
generic names that could clash with other packages. This is particularly an
issue with include files. A packager using wildcards as suggested above might
not notice this when updating the package, but a packager that enumerated the
files list more specifically would do (they would get an unpackaged file error
at rpm build time), and could exclude or rename the offending file as was
appropriate.



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