<div dir="ltr">Hi,<div>while developing ovirt-engine-dashboard it has been raised the issue that just for having ovirt-engine directories in place on the filesystem, the whole engine has to be required.</div><div><br></div><div>Some of the directories currently owned by ovirt-engine package and its subpackages are used also by other projects. In order to provide them whitout installing the whole engine a new sub package is needed, let's call it ovirt-engine-filesystem.</div><div><br></div><div>There are several example of this approach in Fedora, to see them:</div><div>$ dnf list "*filesystem*"<br clear="all"><div><br></div><div>A bug has been opened to track this RFE[1] and a patch has been submitted some time ago[2]</div><div><br></div><div>We didn't reach an agreement on creating the sub package or not, major objection was:</div><div>"<span style="color:rgb(53,53,53);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">is ok for the whole distribution but for us this is an overkill"</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(53,53,53);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(53,53,53);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">Following Open Decision Framework, I'd like to get some more feedback from others since generally seems to be a good idea but I'd like to understand if this may cause issues to other developers / projects and why it's considered an overkill.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(53,53,53);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(53,53,53);font-family:sans-serif;white-space:pre-wrap">In Fedora packaging guidelines[3], the topic is covered by </span>"File and Directory Ownership" section.</div><div><br></div><div>[1] <a href="https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333880">https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1333880</a></div><div>[2] <a href="https://gerrit.ovirt.org/57271">https://gerrit.ovirt.org/57271</a></div><div>[3] <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership">https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#File_and_Directory_Ownership</a></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Sandro Bonazzola<br>Better technology. Faster innovation. Powered by community collaboration.<br>See how it works at <a href="http://redhat.com" target="_blank">redhat.com</a><br></div></div></div></div>
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