Adam Heath wrote: > Consider the case of /usr. Almost all packages have that in their deb. And > if just one package has odd perms on that dir, then very odd things could > occur, when it is unpacked. This is the argument you gave last time, and I still hold that it would be better to find out immediatly that a broken package has made /usr mode 400 than it would be to wait for a bug report from some poor user two happens to install that package before any others and gets a broken system two years down the road. Of course /usr is a poor example; something like /etc/X11 is a much better example. > Also, it could be argued, that /var/tmp should exist in any deb. It's > equivalent to /tmp. Maybe this should be mentioned in policy. Agreed. -- see shy jo
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