Re: Policy on Account creation and deletion?

[Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr>]

Brian May <bam@debian.org> wrote:

> rm -rf /var/lib/xyz

[...]

> Now some people are going to say that using "rm -rf" in a maintainer
> script like this is bad, but at least the above illustrates my point.

For my education, what is the problem exactly in this specific case (in
particular: one should note there is no environment variable expansion
in the directory name)? Fear that the maintainer's cat or a cosmic ray
inserts a space, semicolon or newline after one of the "/" characters?

Thanks.

-- 
Florent