Re: Bug#167422: general: files in /usr/share should be world-readable
On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 11:06:37PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote:
> Matthew Palmer <mpalmer@debian.org> writes:
> > While not being a nethack afficionado, I admin for people who are. Aren't
> > bones levels variable, and hence should not be placed in /usr anyway?
> > Certainly, I know that bones levels are created on the nethack machine, and
> > that machine's /usr is mounted RO.
> There is no rule that /usr can always be safely mounted read-only in
> FHS or the GNU Coding Standards.
/var is specified here in order to make it possible to mount /usr read-
only. Everything that once went into /usr that is written to during
system operation (as opposed to installation and software maintenance)
must be in /var.
Cheers,
aj
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