On 10-10-12 21:41, Julien Cristau wrote: > Hi, > > sorry for the very late answer. No problem. >> +If you read this and care about keeping your system maintainable, please change >> +the layout of the plugins structure of cacti. Due to the way a lot of plug-ins >> +are written (details in bug #681558) in combination with Debian policy, I can >> +not fix this in the package. > Moving things away from /usr/share/cacti/site/plugins manually means any > update to the package won't be effective. Is there really no better way > of handling this? Actually, that is what I want. I want system administrators to install plugins from the web outside of Debian controlled area. "I" might otherwise damage those things upon upgrade. If I read the policy correctly, this is exactly as intended, but I might be wrong. Rephrasing a quote from one of the upstream developers, if the plugin is good enough to be distributed, it should be in cacti itself. But of course I will reconsider if you have good arguments. This is the best I could come up with, and none of my co-maintainers responded. Paul
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