* Top Rock Photography <[email protected]> [09-13-20 15:05]: > This is not logical, and somewhat incorrect. The [ lensfun-data-v1 ] > package needs no mention of the file, as the programme makes mention of it. > In the worst-case scenario, the new version of lensfun already has the new > camera/lens in its database, and any references to the same camera/lens in > any extraneous files are ignored. > > What system-wide updates do is that only one user has to run the update, > (and we assume that that one user is a sysadmin who knows what they are > doing). With local updates, all users have to run the update, creating > multiple copies of the same file. Turning Debian into Windows is not a good > idea. 😄😉 > > The only time a local update is advised, is when creating a custom entry > for some non-standard camera/lens combination, such as a howe-made, > Frankenstein, macro-lens. That is NOT something which one would necessarily > want other users to have in their database. > > Sincerely, > > Karim Hosein > Top Rock Photography > 754.999.1652 > > > > On Sat, 5 Sep 2020 at 10:42, Timur Irikovich Davletshin < > [email protected]> wrote: > > > Let's imagine new camera or lens family appears, this creates new file > > in lensfun data structure. This file is orphaned since it is not > > mentioned in lensfun-data-v1 package. During regular apt update this > > will create mess. Turning Debian into Slackware is not a good idea 😄 > > > > Timur. > > > > >
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