In regard to: Re: [PATCH]: possibility to disable dependencies on parent...:

> I personally am still unsure whether having files depend on their parent 
> directory
> (and symlinks depend on their end-point) was the right thing to do in rpm or 
> not.

I think it was.  It causes a little bit of pain at the start, but
ultimately I think it was the right idea.  The only challenge I've found
with it is one I brought up a while back -- how to decide what package
should claim a particular directory, when there are multiple packages that
might install files into that directory and no real required base package.
In my experience, this happens most with perl modules and directories
under perl's site_lib.

Tim
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