Re: Bug#299007: Transitioning perms of /usr/local
Thomas Hochstein <thh@inter.net> writes:
> 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>.
Personally, I'm okay with breaking this and requiring people who want to
use a system like this to set it up again. I suspect the number of people
who are intentionally using such a system is pretty small. (Obviously, we
would need clear release notes and documentation.)
That said, if folks want to do the work to have a clean transition, I'm
okay with that too. I'm just kind of dubious it's worth it; I feel like
we've changed things like this in Debian before with less of a transition.
But doing a proper transition is the fully-correct thing to do, and would
be nice.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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