Thomas Hochstein <t...@inter.net> writes: > Santiago Vila wrote: >> I wonder if we really want to do all that in 2017. The staff-writable >> /usr/local for a "sysadmin assistant" was an interesting idea twenty >> years ago. Today, we would give a sysadmin assistant an entire virtual >> machine to play with, and would probably not bother with this.
> There seems to be at least another usecase for a staff-writable > /usr/local, see ian's message at > <https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=484841#62>. Personally, I'm okay with breaking this and requiring people who want to use a system like this to set it up again. I suspect the number of people who are intentionally using such a system is pretty small. (Obviously, we would need clear release notes and documentation.) That said, if folks want to do the work to have a clean transition, I'm okay with that too. I'm just kind of dubious it's worth it; I feel like we've changed things like this in Debian before with less of a transition. But doing a proper transition is the fully-correct thing to do, and would be nice. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
