In regard to: Re: [PATCH]: possibility to disable dependencies on parent...:
I personally am still unsure whether having files depend on their parent directory (and symlinks depend on their end-point) was the right thing to do in rpm or not.
I think it was. It causes a little bit of pain at the start, but ultimately I think it was the right idea. The only challenge I've found with it is one I brought up a while back -- how to decide what package should claim a particular directory, when there are multiple packages that might install files into that directory and no real required base package. In my experience, this happens most with perl modules and directories under perl's site_lib. Tim -- Tim Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] Information Technology Services (701) 231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building (701) 231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
