On Tue, 27 Jul 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 01:45:47PM +0200, Santiago Vila wrote: > > If we agree on this, a possible plan would be: > > > > potato: > > Packages reference /var/spool/mail internally. > > base-files creates a symlink /var/mail -> /var/spool/mail > > > > potato+1: Packages reference /var/mail internally. > > * base-files creates /var/mail as a real directory and symlinks > > /var/spool/mail to /var/mail when it is installed by scratch by the > > boot-floppies script that creates the base system. > > * If upgrading from a previous version, do nothing. > > I'd say actually that any package using /var/mail should depend on the > approprate base-files and we could do this for potato even.
You would have to use Pre-Depends, because as soon as you unpack a mail reader using /var/mail, /var/mail would be used, even if base-files has not created the symlink yet. I dislike the idea of packages pre-depending on a specific version of base-files, this imposes a certain order in the upgrade. I think there is no hurry and we should stick to /var/spool/mail for potato. Thanks. -- "0ad7bf8e99ef76d3167c08b298f615cb" (a truly random sig)
