On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:35:09PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > The FHS is pretty amusing on this topic:
Agreed ... > Distributions must take care not to remove locally placed files in these > directories (/srv/*) without administrator permission. [20] > > [20] This is particularly important as these areas will often contain both > files initially installed by the distributor, and those added by > the administrator. > > So the FHS allows a package to install files to /srv (with care), but > they cannot be removed when the package is -- so it would be a very ... but I've a lighter interpretation of the text you quoted: a package can for example have a configuration dialog upon removal (or maybe only upon purging) that ask whether or not to remove stuff placed under /srv. Cheers. -- Stefano Zacchiroli -*- PhD in Computer Science \ PostDoc @ Univ. Paris 7 [EMAIL PROTECTED],pps.jussieu.fr,debian.org} -<>- http://upsilon.cc/zack/ I'm still an SGML person,this newfangled /\ All one has to do is hit the XML stuff is so ... simplistic -- Manoj \/ right keys at the right time
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