19 May
2008
19 May
'08
4:51 p.m.
Patrice Dumas (pertusus@free.fr) said:
On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 09:51:32PM +0200, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
Hi.
While reviewing a package, I stumbled across the use of alternatives and found out it's not regulated in any way in Fedora. So far, I've encountered three ways of handling the symlinks that are set up using alternatives:
- some packages have Provides: for them (like cups or postfix),
Not all files are provided, only /usr/bin/mailq /usr/bin/newaliases /usr/bin/rmail /usr/sbin/sendmail while man pages are not provided. I think it is right like this.
Files have to be 'provided' so things that depend on them can work. Hopefully nothing depends on man pages.
Bill