Paul Cunningham wrote: > > I seem to remember that those "find .... chmod ..." lines are very > historic and go back to when the early sfw packages were in the > companion-cd gate. In some cases they were needed but in most they were > not - they just got propagated from one old package to the next new pkg, > etc, etc. And I know I should be blamed for some of that propagation > (way back)! > > So unless it is really needed it's probably best, in my opinion, not to > have it. But what does the gatekeeper/c-team think?
I'd certainly prefer to see no unnecessary lines in, particularly if the component owner doesn't even know what was the point. (Same goes for that find/rm core that shows up occasionally for no obvious reason.) Of course, when removing something that's already in one must be sure there's no harm, so if it was me I'd run the build with the suspect lines in place and removed and carefully compare if there was any meaningful difference. Most likely not, but it's good to be paranoid. If after that it is clear there's no reason, clean them out. -- Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems
