On Sun, 29 May 2011, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > 4. Encourage sysadmins to use bind mounts instead of symlinks for > this purpose. > > All are incomplete or have downsides. (1) prevents the sysadmin from > removing /opt, as you mentioned. (2) complicates the package creation > procedure, so much so that I'm not sure whether it would work. > (3) would prevent directories first created in maintainer scripts and > later incorporated into the files list from being cleaned up on > removal. (4) has no clear downside --- what would be a good document > to advertise this in?
I don't know. Would it help if I add a question to base-files FAQ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
