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Bug#167422: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable



tb@becket.net (Thomas Bushnell, BSG) writes:

> This is incorrect.  /usr/share is intended to be shared between
> cooperating systems, but cooperating systems' root users might well
> have secrets that they want to conveniently share.

/usr/share is not appropriate for that, as it is the OS's playground
(and I can't see any use for the OS installing secrets there). 
For site-specific secrets /usr/local/share is a better choice.

-- 
Robbe



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