Hi, I'm looking for clarification of policy in the context of this bug
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-system-tools/+bug/71336 and the fact that having your own version of Perl in /usr/local will almost certainly break your Ubuntu admin tools. I have always assumed that it was safe to put whatever I like in /usr/local/ and my system will continue to work. This seems to be backed up by Debian policy http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-opersys.html#s-sysvinit which contains this paragraph "However, because /usr/local and its contents are for exclusive use of the local administrator, a package must not rely on the presence or absence of files or directories in /usr/local for normal operation." This seems quite sensible, otherwise it leads to mysterious and hard to track-down failures. Is this ubuntu policy too? I can't see any real benefit to including /usr/local/bin and I can find plenty of people in the forums who can't start *-admin, presumably due to problems similar to mine, F -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
