Re: /usr/local in some packages
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- Subject: Re: /usr/local in some packages
- From: Guy Maor <maor@debian.org>
- Date: 07 Oct 1998 01:39:14 -0700
- Message-id: <[🔎] 87u31gahql.fsf@femto.dyn.ml.org>
- In-reply-to: Herbert Xu's message of "Tue, 29 Sep 1998 21:35:32 +1000"
- References: <19980929121652.A1343@gondor.apana.org.au> <Pine.LNX.3.96.980929132233.654A-100000@cantor.unex.es> <19980929213532.A12034@gondor.apana.org.au>
Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> writes:
> Well, maybe. But then people may start using /usr/local/lib and you
> will end up adding that to base-files and maybe even more. The real
> solution is the one people have been talking about and seem to be
> the current policy, i.e., to create /usr/local directories in the
> postinst and never remove them.
Current policy is to remove them, but not to fail if that doesn't
succeed.
rmdir /usr/local/... || true
Guy
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