Joseph Carter wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 29, 1998 at 12:16:52PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > After purging emacs today, the damn thing deleted my /usr/local symlink
> > since
> > it was the last package to have /usr/local in it. Obviously this is not
> > very
> > clever.
> >
> > So we should either remove /usr/local from all packages, or tell dpkg to not
> > remove /usr/local. I personally favour the former solution.
>
> /usr/local should not be used in packages. Thought that was already policy?
Right. No package may install stuff in /usr/local nor in /opt. Period.
I guess the only exceptions are perl and emacs where the package
should create the directory structure so people won't have to
guess them.
Regards,
Joey
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