On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Bob Friesenhahn wrote: > The reason why I mentioned /usr/local is because it is a shared > directory. I could also have mentioned /usr. While it seems nice for > a package to 100% clean-up after itself, a bug could cause the package > uninstall to accidentally remove the operating system.
It's also not easy to see if a directory is not shared. For instance some packagers comment-out ncurses' terminfo uninstall because they have local terminal entries, etc., that are unsuitable for inclusion in ncurses. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
