Bill Allombert <[email protected]> writes:

> I tend to agree with you, but I think there is a more fundamental
> issue:  user-generated content should not be stored in /var and should
> not created and removed by maintainer scripts. (In other word, clearly
> separated from automatically generated data like MTA queue, etc).

This creates a different problem, namely that now you have to ask the
user to create a space for that data to be stored and configure the
package to put it there, which increases the complexity of the package
setup.  I'm not sure that's a good tradeoff.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>



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