also sprach Frank Küster <frank@debian.org> [2004.10.26.1916 +0200]: > > Lastly, the policy promises that /usr can be read-only and > > guarantees software to be fully functional. > > Now, where is the possible policy bug? Section 9.1.1 of the policy. The software writes to /usr, which is to be treated as read-only at any time other than package management. Thus, effectively, dpkg is the only tool allowed to manipulate files in /usr, though other tools are used from time to time (e.g. ln(1)), but only during installation or removal of the owner package. -- Please do not CC me when replying to lists; I read them! .''`. martin f. krafft <madduck@debian.org> : :' : proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system Invalid/expired PGP subkeys? Use subkeys.pgp.net as keyserver!
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