Re: /etc/mailname
Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> writes:
> Santiago Vila wrote:
>> It has never been a requirement that every file in the system
>> should be owned in the "dpkg -S" sense by some package.
>
> However, if a file is deleted that is not owned by any package, then
> no package should have a problem with that.
I think you've got a lot of work to do if you want to make that true -
practically any file under /var is a counterexample at the moment.
/var/lib/dpkg/status, frex.
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