On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 02:45:07PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Adam Heath wrote: > > Consider the case of /usr. Almost all packages have that in their deb. And > > if just one package has odd perms on that dir, then very odd things could > > occur, when it is unpacked. > > This is the argument you gave last time, and I still hold that it would > be better to find out immediatly that a broken package has made /usr > mode 400 than it would be to wait for a bug report from some poor user > two happens to install that package before any others and gets a broken > system two years down the road. Isn't that what lintian is for? -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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