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Re: RFS: personalbackup



On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 10:32:29PM +0100, James Westby wrote:
> >>  * You ship an empty /tmp/ in the deb, please drop this.
> > 
> > Personalbackup depends on the existence of the /tmp folder...so is it ok 
> > to just assume that it is always there ?
> > 
> 
> Other packages assume it is there I guess, but I have never seen one
> ship it. I think you will be safe to remove it, but the /var/run
> discussion on -devel recently highlights what it means to assume a
> directory will exist.

/tmp is part of base-files, so you can safelly assume it exists. What
you can't assume is any file there will exist for long. 

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