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Re: slink is gone, goals for potato?



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On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:

> Move it where?  /var is the right place.  People should either get
> bigger /var's (200M might be reasonable) or symlink like you.
> Everyone who installs a proxy, news server, database needs a big
> /var/ anyway.  dpkg/apt are databases.

'Swhat I get for writing emails late at night with the flu, aye? ;)

How about this? By default, /var/apt is symlinked to /usr/local/apt.

Believe me, you need >200M of disk to go from hamm to slink. And you have
to account for the fact that other things use /var. (Trust me. 125M of
stuff on a 56k modem SUCKS.) 

Actually, no. Not by default. I've got it. When configuring apt, you get a
prompt. "Do you want to keep it's downloaded files in /var/apt or
/usr/local/apt?" Make everybody happy. :)

*sniffle* now, if'n you'll excuse me, i'm going back to bed. Or at least
going to TRY going back to bed. ;P

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