Sven Joachim wrote:
They should have been created by the emacs22-common postinst, shipping them in the package is verboten, see policy 9.1.2. It could be that /usr/local was mounted read-only when that script ran.
No, it doesn't exist at all. According to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard /usr/local is off limits for installing packages: "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally. It needs to be safe from being overwritten when the system software is updated. It may be used for programs and data that are shareable amongst a group of hosts, but not found in /usr." Its "system administrator" (thats me), not "package maintainer". I am free to remove it, and Emacs shouldn't complain. And "safe from being overwritten" means IMHO, that no new subdirs with unwanted access permissions are created, esp. not without telling anybody. I stumbled over this problem when emacs got stuck about an unresponsive NFS server for /usr/local in a corporate network. Sorry, but this should not happen. Xemacs21 doesn't have this problem (I tried it), so it is surely possible to fix this. Regards Harri -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
