On 2003-08-05(Tue) 14:04:01 +0200, Pixel wrote:
> > > hum, as for me, i really prefer using many wildcards.
> > 
> > However that also contributes to mis-packaging, e.g. including
> > /usr/share/aclocal into other packages. $mandir is not problematic,
> > but $datadir and $libdir can be.
> 
> but i used %{_mandir}/*/*, %{_gamesbindir}/*, %{_menudir}/*, %{_infodir}/*
> which must not be problematic.

Hope I'm not too picky: %_infodir/dir
Generally the other macros above won't cause problems, what I am
stressing is mainly about $datadir and $libdir, which has been causing
trouble since pre-historic times.


> > Besides, with less overuse of wildcards, packager will be more alerted
> > when something changed (file additions, directory moving etc), which is
> > not a bad thing.
> 
> this is somewhat new with the unpackaged file error.
> 
> but when i upload a package, i always diff the file lists [1]. So as for
> me, i prefer using many wildcards.
> 
> [1] using this script: http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~prigaux/Upload

Hey, you haven't told anybody you have done aditional checks :-)

Abel

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