On Tue, Feb 24, 1998 at 10:22:51PM +0100, Christian Schwarz wrote:
>
> Let me just comment on one clear question I've seen in the discussion:
> Should game's score files be tagged as conffile? I think the answer is
> clear: `no'.
Another check for lintian :-) - everything in /var/lib/games is a
On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Brian White wrote:
> > Umm, did you even read the FHS before posting this? /usr/share is
> > mandated by FHS
>
> I knew it's purpose, yes. The only thing that this mentions that I didn't
> know is the "is for all read-only architecture independent data files" part.
>
> I c
> Umm, did you even read the FHS before posting this? /usr/share is
> mandated by FHS
I knew it's purpose, yes. The only thing that this mentions that I didn't
know is the "is for all read-only architecture independent data files" part.
I can understand why making it untouchable by packages wil
Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thus, I propose we make /usr/share be treated the same way as
> /usr/local and not allow packages to put anything under it but
> directories. In most cases, it should be easy to make the program
> search /usr/local, then /usr/share, then /usr/lib, so we c
Umm, did you even read the FHS before posting this? /usr/share is
mandated by FHS
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-4.8.html
I'm not even going to bother to post about the rest of this other than to
say that there is a planned feature of dpkg&co to be able to exclude
certain directories from b
I'm finding that I really dislike having packages put things in /usr/share.
1) If /usr/share is a read-only mount, then I have to unmount it. This means
that all the files under /usr/share still get installed on my machine even
if I'm mounting that directory from elsewhere. (I can delete t
[I'm CC'ing this to debian-policy because I think it's an important
general issue.]
What I think it would be best is to tell the user that Samba was
previously installed and ask if he/she wants to keep the current
configuration (regarding running mode). What do you think? I think
sever
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On 25 Feb 1998, James Troup wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> > > Anyway, I think this is a bug in dpkg (not asking about removed
> > > conffiles) and I don't think it is right to make a program to
> > > "benefit" from bugs in other programs...
On 25 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Christian> On 25 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [snip]
> >> I would propose that no package keep files in user home directories
> >> as a policy. This is not hard to do, and it would al
Hi,
I already have an /etc/profile on my machine that looks for
stuff in /etc/profile.d; this can be used to set up stuff for Korn
sehll like shells.
Maybe extend it to have /etc/init.d/${SHELL}/ directories for
the less priviledged shells?
manoj
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Hi,
>>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> On 25 Feb 1998, Manoj Srivastava wrote: [snip]
>> I would propose that no package keep files in user home directories
>> as a policy. This is not hard to do, and it would allow the user
>> full control over their home di
Hi,
For my part, I am quite happy with this interpretation of the
policy; I think it makes sense, and is internally consistent. I am
cutting down the posting to the relevant bits (I asked the same
question multiple times, and christian responded to all of them).
I think this
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