Bug#325396: try apt.conf hook

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:26:32AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> Chapter 4 of the file hiearchy standard says that /usr should not be
> written to.  The unpacking of the source into /usr in a postinst would
> create data that lives outside of the dpkg database, so unpacking source
> there automatically would be a violation of the FHS, in my opinion.

This is a bad idea anyway.

> Creation of data somewhere under /var, or in a user-configurable
> location is an option, but not one I'm fond of.  What happens if source
> is already unpacked there?  We wouldn't want to overwrite an existing

Anything outside of /usr/local and /home/* should not be touched by the user
anyway.

Friendly,

Sven Luther