Re: Bug#201023: dosemu: purging doesmu wipes out all user data under /var/lib/dosemu)
On 14-Jul-03, 17:37 (CDT), Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> wrote:
> Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> wrote:
> >
> > Sorry, the data under /var/whatever is NOT solely owned by the package.
> > You might want to check with the mysql and postgres maintainers, as well
> > as the MTA maintainers, about the proper way to deal with this.
>
> Those packages are doing exactly the wrong thing by prompting before
> we have all agreed on this policy.
References, please? The last time this came up regarding the database
packages, I recall that there was no consensus, and that the prompting
was the work around.
And are you seriously suggesting that that an mail package that deleted
/var/mail/* on a purge would be acceptable? Or even it's own mail queue?
I might be moving that to another system. Yes, I should have done it
before (and personally, I would have), but there's no way on earth you
can call it anything but user data, and removing it is not acceptable.
> This is akin to aliasing rm to 'rm -i'. The user gets accustomed to
> purging packages without thinking which will only bite them later on.
Not, not equivalent at all. If I say rm -rf /some/directory/here, it
damn well better not touch /other/directory/there.
Steve
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