Re: policy violation and bug reports. - some resolution?
Hi,
Not everything that should be fixed is a policy violation
(though I believe we should consider conffiles in user dirctories a
no-no in policy). Why should a user (even root) have *.dpk-dist
cluttering up what should be their domain (it is their home
directory, after all).
I have 30K of .bash files in /root. The environment is
sophisticated, and keeps in sync with my non root environment, and
provides additional checks and balances.
Compared to that, the default files are puerile. It is
annoying to have little control over my home directory as root, and
b) have to delete those files over and over again since they mess up
ls -asCF output.
If you must have thse files to copy into /root, keep them in
/usr/lib/basefiles which is not oin the root partition) and do your
copying from there. What objections do you have to that?
I would propose that no package keep files in user home
directories as a policy. This is not hard to do, and it would allow
the user full control over their home directory, which is a right we
should respect.
manoj
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