On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 8:34 AM, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > That depends to a large extent on what you want to do with it once > you've built the package.
I should of mentioned, ultimately it is for a Debian Pure Blend. For now, I am just hacking things out. > If you want to upload the package to Debian, then the answer is a clear > no. Debian Policy forbids touching other packages' files in /etc with > the strongest wording, as well as doing anything to /home other than > ensuring it exists. The former is because it would cause confusion who > is responsible when things go wrong, the latter is because /home is > meant for local use and we shouldn't touch it as a distribution, period. I understand the /etc policy and the modular plugins most packages use for third party configs (like Apache). On the other hand, I was really hoping for an install that looks like this: - install xorg, lightdm, window_manager, etc - populate /etc/skel - create user and copy /etc/skel to $HOME but, I guess no such luck! > It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer > -- Barack Obama, speaking in Brussels, Belgium, 2014-03-26 Totally agree :-) Thanks for the reply and it is helping me to understand Debian policy a lot more! Steve
