[Mageia-dev] Over-zealous rpmlint policy (rejecting rt)

Thu Jan 12 10:55:07 CET 2012

'Twas brillig, and Buchan Milne at 12/01/12 09:12 did gyre and gimble:
+> I don't see why we shouldn't ship dirs in /usr/local ...
+
+I don't really see the point in shipping the dirs personally.
+
+Any separate extension that is packaged should not go into /usr/local
+anyway, so these folders are purely for users doing this manually.
+
+I would expect that the "make install" stage of any extension
+installation would automatically create those folders anyway, so I
+really don't see the benefit of adding these empty folders into a
+package. The gain in doing so seems minimal to the point of useless.
+
+Of course if extensions do not have installer scripts then the user will
+have to create those folders themselves, but if they are following a
+manual recipe anyway, what's an extra mkdir during that process going to
+cost them? Very little IMO.
+
+Disclaimer: I have no experience of rt itself, so I could be missing
+something contextual here.
+
+Cheers!
+
+Col
+
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