On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 05:54:36PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * Steve Langasek > | 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. > The either ship the dir in the package, or have something like > [ -d /etc/opt ] || mkdir -p /etc/opt > in the postinst Is Debian any longer LSB-compliant if we require LSB packages to provide this directory themselves? If someone has gone to the trouble of installing the lsb .deb on Debian, they should get a complete LSB-compliant system; and any admin that gets irritated that /etc/opt shows up again when they apt-get install lsb should learn to cope, because that's part of what they're *asking* for by typing that command. Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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