On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 01:28:27PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > After purging emacs today, the damn thing deleted my /usr/local symlink > > since > > it was the last package to have /usr/local in it. Obviously this is not > > very > > clever. > > Would have this happened if base-files contained /usr/local as an empty > directory?
Well, maybe. But then people may start using /usr/local/lib and you will end up adding that to base-files and maybe even more. The real solution is the one people have been talking about and seem to be the current policy, i.e., to create /usr/local directories in the postinst and never remove them. -- Debian GNU/Linux 2.0 is out! ( http://www.debian.org/ ) Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt
