On Tue, 29 Sep 1998, Herbert Xu wrote: > 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.
Well, no, the thing would stop at /usr/local. You should not be forced to have anything inside /usr/local. But yes, I agree it is not needed at all. Just fix emacs20, it's already reported as Bug #23431. -- "26c03c8e40511060460d97e1faa16a07" (a truly random sig)
