Manoj Srivastava wrote: > So what? what are postinst files for? Which games need a > binary high scores file?
Oh, for example, xboing, nighthawk, thrust, xgalaga, xhextris, xtrojka, abuse, canfield, robots, sail, snake, tetris-bsd, phantasia, rogue, maelstrom, xkobo, and xsok. (Plus dosemu hdimages, which belong in /etc by the same reasoning you're using.) > why can't they put the scores file in /etc and make a pointer to it? Because, this contravenes the FSSTND! /etc is for configuration files. These are not configuration files. > Maintainer laziness is no excuse to not enforce policy. Cutting on the debian maintainers again. My, you have a high opinion of us. Let's clarify the policy first, shall we? I've seen no evidence that the debian maintainers are lazy. > Oh, I do not think so. just moving user modifiable > configuration files shall not significantly increase the size of > /etc. Just look at the sizes of the violators; and compare them to > the size of /etc. I have looked at the numbvers. have you? Yes. It would increase /etc by about 3 or 4 mb on my system. /etc is currently 2.7 mb on my system. I have only one simple question - if this can be answered to my satisfaction, I would have no qualms about moving all conffiles into /etc. That question is: what does this gain us? I don't see an appreciable gain. I see a lot of stuff moved around in a fashion that makes debian even more unlike a standard linux system. I see the developers hobbled by a useless piece of policy. So where's the gain? -- see shy jo
