[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) wrote: > On May 29, Frank Küster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> - Setups without an existing $HOME directory can exist, and package >> building must work there, correct? > I'd say that packages being built should not create files outside of the > build directory. But creating ~ is simple enough that I think it's > reasonable to require that it exists.
But generating cache data in the current directory (or subdirectories thereof) does not make sense, so requiring it for the special case of buildds doesn't sound very sensible. Anyway, I think many packages create files in /var during operation, that's all this hierarchy is meant for. I don't see how we could generally restrict package build processes to the build directory, especially since there's no sane way to detect when we are "building a package". Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
