Re: /usr/src/redhat on Debian?

[Eric Richardson <eric@milagrosoft.com>]

Joey Hess wrote:
> 
> Osamu Aoki wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 05:55:11PM -0700, Eric Richardson wrote:
> > > > Because you have rpm installed, which may be because you installed
> > > > alien.
> > > I did install alien but these directories were all empty which is why
> > > I asked the question.
> >
> > If you use alien package, then these directory will be used.  These
> > directories are directory needed by rpm.  I think alien uses rpm to
> > unpack source.rpm.
> 
> The directories are included in the rpm package for completeness, but
> very few people will ever use them. If they annoy you, you can safely
> remove them.

Okay, Thanks. I think I'll do that. 

Just curious if this is in /usr/src for people doing package
development?

Eric