On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Danek Duvall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 06:26:48PM +0200, Alexander Vlasov wrote:
>
>  > It means all of them should deliver /usr for quite obvious reason: nobody
>  > knows which packages would be installed on particular machine. With
>  > 1,000,000 installation someone will definitely end up with /usr erased.
>  > And "some" is not an answer anyway: absolutely clear condition should
>  > exist. It should be either one package (and everybody should depend on it
>  > somehow, maybe implicitly)  or all of them who have any objects under /usr.
>
>  I'd much rather have the former.

I tend to agree with Danek here. Rather than duplicate information
about the /usr directory in thousands of packages, it makes sense that
it would be defined by one base package that is guaranteed to be
installed.

-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben
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