On Fri, Feb 04, 2005 at 07:25:43PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hi, > > The last message in the report suggests: > > > On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 11:50:33AM -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > If you read the FHS more closely, you see that it only refers to the > > > > deletion of _files_ under /var/cache, not directories. > > > Which is right, but: as directory is a special kind of a file, the > > wording there is ambiguous, or misleading, at least (*I* was mislead). > > I think that that is stretching it a bit; there is a > distinction between files and directories in several places in the > FHS.
I think this is a general problem in Debian: You think certain things
are clear, because You have perhaps a PhD in CS, and 10+ years of
experience. There are people who have neither. It is ambiguous for
some quite smart people. There is no reason not to disambiguate it (in
the standard).
Note that the simplest way to do the deletion is
find /var/cache -not -type d -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
... and find(1) and xargs(1) are too much of a muchness, for most people
out there.
> > and FHS being worded more clearly.
>
> Again, this is beyond the scope of policy. I would suggest
> following this up with the authors of the FHS directly.
Has been done.
> Since this is not really something that can be fixed in policy
> proper, I am closing this report.
Agreed; this must be fixed in FHS. Maybe wontfix, upstream would be
more appropriate?
Cheers,
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