Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)
On Wed, 06 Jan 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Your data in in $HOME. Not all data is in $HOME. I have lots of data which is in /srv, /var/www, or other places, some of which is tightly coupled with a specific set of packages. On other words: as a quick test: if I only use a program as user and purge the package and my $HOME (and perhaps /tmp by reboot), there should be nothing left and especially when I reinstall it everything should be as after the first installation. There are lots of cases where packages legitimately fail this test. Any change to this policy needs to account for the corner cases where users have created or modified user data which should be preserved. If the data was not created by the package during installation or has been subsequently modified by the user and is likely to be of some degree of importance, it should not be removed, even on purge, without the specific direction of the administrator. That said, to the extent possible, packages should remove data which was created by the package during installation which has not been modified by the end user or is unlikely to be of any importance. Don Armstrong -- EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers' EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof, sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns -- requires no fitting, no prescriptions. -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)
On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:34:09AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 06 Jan 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Your data in in $HOME. Not all data is in $HOME. I have lots of data which is in /srv, /var/www, or other places, some of which is tightly coupled with a specific set of packages. I think we should move to a situation where all important user-generated data iseither in $HOME or /srv and let /var for system data. Cheers, -- Bill. ballo...@debian.org Imagine a large red swirl here. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: does /var/games have to be deleted on purge? (if it's empty..)
Bill Allombert bill.allomb...@math.u-bordeaux1.fr writes: On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:34:09AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 06 Jan 2010, Bernhard R. Link wrote: Your data in in $HOME. Not all data is in $HOME. I have lots of data which is in /srv, /var/www, or other places, some of which is tightly coupled with a specific set of packages. I think we should move to a situation where all important user-generated data iseither in $HOME or /srv and let /var for system data. I mostly agree in general, but I don't know what, for instance, should be done about database servers that have a default database location. That really should be in /srv under this principle, but since we can't assume any particular file structure in /srv, we'd need to ask the user during installation where to put the default database location. And then it's not clear what to do if they don't answer. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
