Re: the right way to uninstall /var/games
Oohara> I maintain a game which saves its high score in /var/games .
Oohara> It creates /var/games in its postinst to avoid dpkg -r
Oohara> "directory not removed because it is not empty" warning.
Colin> I don't think you should worry about that warning. Accept it as
Colin> a bug in dpkg, tell anybody who complains about it that it's a
Colin> bug in dpkg, and make your package behave in the simplest
Colin> possible way.
I agree. It is a small problem (if one at all) compared to the ones
you already know you'd encounter trying to avoid it.
I think packages should include all its files and directories in their
shipping lists whenever possible; postinst tricks read to unclean
messy hackery and will backfire sooner or later.
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