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Re: Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local



Santiago Vila wrote:

> I wonder if we really want to do all that in 2017. The staff-writable
> /usr/local for a "sysadmin assistant" was an interesting idea twenty
> years ago. Today, we would give a sysadmin assistant an entire
> virtual machine to play with, and would probably not bother with this.

There seems to be at least another usecase for a staff-writable
/usr/local, see ian's message at
<https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484841#62>.

-thh


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