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Re: Bug#6638: cweb incorrectly installs /usr/local/lib/cweb



>Summary:
>- cweb now creates `/usr/local/lib/cweb/' directory, into which site
>  local files can be placed.  This path is compiled in cweb.  Is it
>  OK, or should this directory be `/usr/lib/'?  (I think
>  `/usr/local/lib' is better.  No general local stuff should be out
>  of `/usr/local/'.)
>- cweb creates this directory in `postinst' and removes it in
>  `postrm' after receiving bug #6638.  However there is little problem
>  with it -- I can't see it in `dpkg -L' report.  And this is a method
>  I use for inspecting what files newly installed package uses and
>  consider to be quickly available simple information about any
>  package.  So it's more safe (against ro mounted /usr/local/) but
>  less consistent.  What to do with it?

Being the person that chronically complains about this :), I am for
the cweb method of handling this... Few things are more frustrating
than changing the mount tables for more than a dozen debian machines
just so I can upgrade or install emacs (as one example), so it can
attempt to remove and re-create a directory that is already there...


-- 
Richard W Kaszeta 			Graduate Student/Sysadmin
bofh@bofh.me.umn.edu			University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta


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