On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Anthony Towns wrote: > On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 12:16:51PM -0700, Carl R. Witty wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:32:57AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > > > > > I second this proposal, but please change the word "dependency" > > > > > by "Pre-Dependency" > > > Why does /var/mail have to exist before those packages are unpacked? > > Others have explained that this is probably not necessary for MTA's. > > However, it still seems necessary for MUA's. On a multi-user system, > > any unpacked MUA could possibly get executed while the package is > > unconfigured, and before base-files is configured. > > However, that MUA would presumably get run by a non-root user, who couldn't > create a subdirectory with /var, which isn't world-writable. > > And while that may cause the MUA to do "weird" things (like read the user's > mail via /var/spool/mail, or die saying "can't find your mail"), for an > unconfigured package, this doesn't seem unreasonable.
It would be unreasonable that we claim that we can upgrade the system "in place" without it being true. Pre-Depends are absolutely needed for MUAs. It is 100% certain that *every* MTA is stopped in the postrm? If so, I will not mind that policy is reworded so that it says "Pre-Depends for MUAs, Depends for MTAs". Thanks. -- "0d3d17f3e045810164c5d1fb545ae4d3" (a truly random sig)
