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Re: Bug#128531: tmda



On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 07:41:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
> A program run by a user will never be able to write out the .py[co] files so
> the files MUST be generated by the postinst which has root privs.  Also we can
> not expect the user to be running /usr mount rw except when a package is being
> installed.  So even if the user is logged in as root they will still be unable
> to write the optimized files out.
> 
> What do you have against giving the user optimizations?

Absolutely nothing, but I don't see why this needs to be done outside of
the package management system.

--Adam

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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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