On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 12:25:40AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Chris Lawrence wrote: > > FYI: I have a release candidate of the lsb package (version 1.1.0-3) > > available at: > > http://people.debian.org/~lawrencc/ > This package contains a number of directories that are already in > base-files. In particular, all the /opt crap. base-files already > includes all that, at least it makes them on new installs. It does not > force you to have them, and if you rmdir them it won't put them back. > Do we need to worry about upgraded-from-potato debian systems that do not > contain /opt and /etc/opt, and lsb packages that rely on these directories > to exist? If people are installing lsb packages by converting them with > alien, the resulting debs will include /opt if the package has files in > /opt and it won't matter whether the system they are installed on has already > been forced to have a /opt already or not. Same with /etc/opt. The only > failure I can envision would be a package that did not include files in > one of these two directories but tried to symlink or copy stuff into them > by hand, if they did not exist. Hmm, but one of our two primary recommended methods of handling configuration files in native packages is by copying the files to /etc in the postinst. If /etc/opt is not guaranteed to be installed by default, then any lsb packages would be unable to take advantage of this approach. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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