Re: Installing files in user directories
Hi,
In general, packages should not install files in user
directories, and this includes root, with one exception. However,
one should also realize that user home directories may need to be
seeded with files at initial creation, and there is a mechanism for
that. The mechanism is /etc/skel, which contains files that are added
to user directories at the time of creation of the account.
The one exception is seeding files for root. Since /root is is
already created by the base, and it may have special needs for
startupo files (like, it needs to be way more secure), the files in
/etc/skel are not used. The base files package creates the minimal
files that seed /root, but should never again touch /root.
manoj
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