On Thu, May 30, 2002 at 12:58:48PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > I also think that might have been a hold over from when we couldn't override > permissions of files. Since permissions on devices are changed very often(as > compared to normal dirs/files), I believe it became policy to not ship device > files in debs. > > Maybe it's time to revisit this? No. I don't want to have to learn the dpkg stat-overrides mechanism to chmod a device entry. It's too opaque and doesn't buy anything. It also conflicts with devfs. -- Mike Stone
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