Chapter 4 of the file hiearchy standard says that /usr should not be
written to. The unpacking of the source into /usr in a postinst would
create data that lives outside of the dpkg database, so unpacking source
there automatically would be a violation of the FHS, in my opinion.
Creation of data
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 01:26:32AM -0600, dann frazier wrote:
Chapter 4 of the file hiearchy standard says that /usr should not be
written to. The unpacking of the source into /usr in a postinst would
create data that lives outside of the dpkg database, so unpacking source
there automatically
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