modifying home directories by maintainer scripts (was: Re: Bug#329347: common-lisp-controller: checking of permissions of the output directory)

2005-09-21 Thread René van Bevern
On 21.09.05, Faré wrote: On 9/21/05, René van Bevern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 21.09.05, Faré wrote: Hi Faré, The only possible downside is having to walk /etc/passwd to locate all the places where to purge the cache, if you wish to do such thing. No, it is the plain and

Re: modifying home directories by maintainer scripts (was: Re: Bug#329347: common-lisp-controller: checking of permissions of the output directory)

2005-09-21 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Wed, 21 Sep 2005, René van Bevern wrote: Not by packages or their scripts and not without user interaction. It's dangerous. Often it IS done without interaction, with the expected screwups and massive loss of data. Openoffice deleted a ton of user files with their super-braindead upgrade

Re: [cl-debian] modifying home directories by maintainer scripts (was: Re: Bug#329347: common-lisp-controller: checking of permissions of the output directory)

2005-09-21 Thread Peter Van Eynde
On Wednesday 21 September 2005 15:49, René van Bevern wrote: A lot of packages install stuff in the user directory. I doubt that any package does this. 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ :( $ grep '^/home/' /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list 1/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ :( $ None on my system. Not by packages or