On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 17:47 +1100, Mark Purcell wrote:
> On Thursday 24 December 2009 05:30:25 Tim Retout wrote:
> > hp-plugin downloads firmware and plugins into
> > /usr/share/hplip/data/{firmware,plugins}. To quote the FHS:
> >
> > /var is specified here in order to make it possible to mount /usr
> > read-only. Everything that once went into /usr that is written to
> > during system operation (as opposed to installation and software
> > maintenance) must be in /var.
>
> Tim,
>
> The firmware downloaded is only used during installation of specific new
> printers.
>
> Once you have installed your printer you can mount /usr read-only and your
> system will operate correctly.Okay. I think I can accept this reasoning, although it breaks my intuition that dpkg should control everything under /usr/share. I am copying debian-devel to perhaps get some other opinions on how to interpret the FHS when it talks about "installation and software maintenance". I can't see any cleanup of these directories in any hplip postrm files, so I don't think these directories will be removed after a purge? I can file that as a separate bug once I've confirmed it, if you like. -- Tim Retout <t...@retout.co.uk>
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