Am 16.07.2008 um 20:47 schrieb Harald Dunkel:
> 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.
If you want to change the Debian policy that maintainer scripts may
create directories under /usr/local, please discuss this on
debian-devel.
> 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.
While I have an idea how to prevent the warning, there is probably not
much to do if the server is unresponsive and does not return ENOENT in
time. Many programs will have problems in that case.
Regards,
Sven
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