Bob Proulx wrote: > * I thought 'share' was defined to be truly optional, in that it *could* > be removed and nothing on the system would break by doing that. > [Half sleepy post, take with care.] I was prodded off list that /usr/share is not optional. So I woke up long enough to dig out the policy I was thinking about. (andreas posted about this recently which is what I was thinking of.) Debian Policy 13.3: > Packages must not require the existance of any files in > /usr/share/doc/ in order to function [60]. > Footnote [60] The system administrator should be able to delete > files in /usr/share/doc/ without causing any programs to break. Which of course would not apply to /usr/share in general. Think of /usr/share/terminfo as an example. Bob
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