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Re: ocaml 3.04-3 uploaded



On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 02:32:30PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 10:46:10AM +0100, Sven wrote:
> > > Hmmm, you will have a hard work implementing a package reference counter which
> > > will not be broken when this file is edited by hand, which makes sense IMHO.
> > 
> > Then what do you suggest ? None of the other ideas are perfect, maybe having a
> > separate file would be the best thing to do ?
> 
> IMO: ld.conf is more a database file than a configuration file (think
> about dpkg's databases).
> 
> So I propose to keep it in a place like /var/lib/ocaml, in such a way a
> user should not modify it.

If editing it by hand makes sense (e.g. this is suggested when installing
non-Debian software), it should IMO go under /etc/.
But I do not know whether this is relevant.

Denis



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