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



On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 12:17:48AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Branden" == Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> 
>  Branden> On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 08:10:02PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
>  >> You can decide not to log for _your_ package. I certainly am
>  >> going to continue to log the compilation for mine.
> 
>  Branden> Well, will you consider placing them in a more FHS-friendly location
>  Branden> than /usr/share?  :)
> 
> 	The log file lives in the same place as the generated e;c
>  files; I consider them all as files generated while bytecompiling.
> 
> 	What was your recommendation?

I don't have one any more specific than "somewhere under /var".
/var/log doesn't work if the byte-compiler isn't running as the root
user or the adm group.

*Does* the byte-compiler run as root?

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