Bill Nottingham wrote :
Matthias Saou (thias@spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.spam.egg.and.spam.freshrpms.net) said:
Argh! I could have sworn I had read the opposite somewhere, and have been changing my spec files ever since. Here too, we need to document clearly which one we should use, even though the symlink won't be removed anytime soon...
Not won't, *can't*.
If you want to remove the symlink, you need a compatibility symlink in the other way.
Hehe, but you're thinking in terms of today's rpm. Discussing stuff with Jeff at the FOSDEM this week-end, he already has a way of dealing with this well known limitation, which (from what I've understood) would basically be a "pre everything" approach. A similar "post everything" approach and a little magic could also nicely solve the icon caches, mime types, menus etc. performance problems.
Which is why I didn't say "never", but "anytime soon" ;-)
Matthias