On Sunday, 22 February 2009 at 20:03, Rex Dieter wrote:
Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
Hi all,
Here's a draft that - after deciding which solution is best - should eventually be put into Packaging Guidelines:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/UsingAlternatives
I tried to list all pros and cons of each solution. I'm personally hesitating between using %ghost or Provides:, but I'd prefer the Provides: solution.
If the only con of the %ghost solution is that it conflicts with "files owned by multiple packages are forbidden"
I would advocate the use of %ghost. It works, provided the contents of all the targets are the same, ie, if they all use: touch /far/bar
Conflicts will arise to simply highlight pkgs not following the convention (ie, being a valuable debugging tool).
Sounds good to me.
Thanks for the comments. I'll incorporate them in the draft and present it later for approval.
Regards, R.