Re: base-files does not create /usr/local directories
>Thus, I think it's reasonable for base-files to create /usr/local
>directories. (If nothing else, it lets people know up front that they
>have to do work to handle a read-only /usr/local...)
I know I have to do work to handle a read-only /usr/local, but after
the first machine it becomes a chore. After the 23rd machine has to
be --force'd to let me update emacs (an example of a package that has
done this to me in the past) remove an empty dir just to replace it
with an indentical empty dir it gets rather ridiculous.
We keep talking about getting dpkg to ignore certain filespecs when
extracting (rpm already has this capability). Can somebody out there
code it?
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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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