Hi Russ, Thanks for your quick response. On moandei 2 Maart 2009, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Should you need the functionality, it's of course trivial to recreate the > > situation (you need to take some action anyway to make use of it). > To be fair, it's not as clear to me that this is true. Packages create > additional directories in /usr/local in their maintainer scripts, and > currently Policy says that they need to maintain these permissions and > ownership. In the absence of that sort of package support, one will end > up with files and directories with the wrong ownership and have to > periodically fix that by hand. It's therefore not *quite* trivial. You're right that the exact triviality of this is debatable. However I think we can agree that in any case it's very well possible to ensure those permissions the admin requires are present without much hassle, be it a simple puppet/cfengine recipe, a dpkg post-invoke command, etc.. Thijs
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