Re: /etc/mailname

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Subject: Re: /etc/mailname
From: Richard Kettlewell <richardk@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 10:28:14 +0000
Message-id: <[🔎] 84d6xrsjwh.fsf@rjk.greenend.org.uk>
Reply-to: Richard Kettlewell <rjk@terraraq.org.uk>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.4.10.10203261154140.2020-100000@flipflop.ieee.uow.edu.au> (Matthew Palmer's message of "Tue, 26 Mar 2002 02:32:01 GMT")
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Matthew Palmer <mjp16@ieee.uow.edu.au> writes:
> Santiago Vila wrote:

>> It has never been a requirement that every file in the system
>> should be owned in the "dpkg -S" sense by some package.
>
> However, if a file is deleted that is not owned by any package, then
> no package should have a problem with that.

I think you've got a lot of work to do if you want to make that true -
practically any file under /var is a counterexample at the moment.

/var/lib/dpkg/status, frex.

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