On Tue, Aug 03, 1999 at 08:32:57AM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote:
> > I second this proposal, but please change the word "dependency"
> > by "Pre-Dependency" (otherwise I would formally object ;-).
> > Rationale: base-files (>=whatever) must be unpacked and *configured*
> > before *any* package using /var/mail is *unpacked*, because the symlink
> > /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail will be handled in base-files' postinst.
> Obviously and I support this addition.
I'm confused. No packages install things into /var/spool/mail or /var/mail
directly, do they? Nor can I see why they'd want to use this as part of
their preinst or even postinst. Neither exim nor mutt include /var/anything
in their dpkg -L output.
Why does /var/mail have to exist before those packages are unpacked?
Before they're actually *executed*, I could believe, but that only
requires an ordinary dependency, no?
Cheers,
aj
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