On Mar 8, 2014 11:57 AM, "Kevin Kofler" <kevin.kof...@chello.at> wrote: > > Tom Callaway wrote:
> > The prohibition against packages installing files into /bin, /sbin, > > /lib, and /lib4 has been removed and a section explaining how Fedora's > > UsrMove? feature interacts with the rpm %files section has been added. > > Packagers who maintain software that installs into /bin, /sbin, /lib, > > and /lib64 historically or in upstream are encouraged to read that > > section to understand what's best for their package: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Effect_of_the_UsrMove_Fedora_Feature > > Together with: > http://akozumpl.github.io/dnf/cli_vs_yum.html#dnf-provides-bin-file-does-not-find-any-packages-on-fedora > doesn't that mean that users will have to run BOTH: > dnf provides /usr/bin/foo > AND > dnf provides /bin/foo > to check what package owns that particular file? That strikes me as > extremely user-unfriendly. > I'm having trouble understanding what is being documented there. It may be something that should be "fixed" in dnf. Fixed being a bit of a misnomer because (1) it's more of a kludgy workaround that (2) can't work on all situations. But as you point out, sometimes ui can't be pure because the things it's giving insight to are not very clean and neat themselves. -Toshio
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