Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 350641
own /usr/share/aclocal
Last modified: 2015-03-04 20:19:25 EST
Description of problem: autoconf macros goes in /usr/share/aclocal, owned by the automake package. This is inconvenient since all the packages that ship autoconf macros have to either own the directory or depend on automake. Some think that shipping an autoconf macro file means that the package should depend on aclocal, but in my opinion this should be left to the packager, and not caused by a directory ownership issue. Still it is not really a basic filesystem directory, therefore it is not obvious that you should accept my request... Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info:
Any progress?
Hi Patrice. Sorry for answering so late. While i agree that having automake own /usr/share/aclocal is not optimal filesystem so far doesn't own any application specific files, so i'd rather not start it now. As i've seen more of those requests lately though one possibility for the future would be to add an application related filesystem package at some point which could contain and own those application related general directories and files. Read ya, Phil