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At 05:42 PM 6/22/2009 +0200, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> Wouldn't it be better to use the native line terminator on the current
> platform? (someone might want to edit or at least view the file)
>
>
> Good idea, I'll change that,

As long as the file is always *read* with "U" mode, so that you can't 
mess it up, especially if the install is to a directory shared 
between platforms.


> The idea of this API is to find out of a distribution "owns" a file, 
> e.g. is the only distribution
> that uses it, so it can be safely removed.

This could equally well be done by ``owners(path)``, returning a 
sequence of zero or more items.  Any length <> 1 means the file can't 
be safely removed.  Meanwhile, having the data about all the owners 
of a file would also be useful for tools that just want to inspect a 
directory's contents, for example, or to detect conflicts and overwrites.

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