Tim Retout wrote: >> Well, I don't exactly agree to the "host-specific scripts". >> If we go down this road, then the whole /usr/local should go away >> (think of perl, python etc.) > > There can be site-specific software that is not host-specific, so > third-party Perl modules would still belong in /usr/local. Exactly; there can be site-specific AGIs that are not host-specific (been there, done that). If you think about it a bit, there's not much of a difference.
> But symlinks in /var/lib would not be unprecedented; I can think, for > example, of the typo3-dummy package (for configuring a web app), which > puts a whole hierarchy of files and symlinks in /var/lib/typo3-dummy. > There must be more. HylaFAX does something like that. It's ugly as hell :-) tomcat has a bunch of symlinks and it's not that bad. I'd prefer it if it was our last option though. > Yes, ideally we would add this support - but would it not involve > changing the format of the config file, and creating even more > incompatibilities with upstream? It might. Not sure yet. I'll try to discuss this with upstream. Regards, Faidon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]