Cameron Murgatroyd wrote: > Hi I've recently become a frequent user of debian and I have a question if > I were to want to make a .deb package for a game hack and to do it I needed > to delete some files from the users file system before my files go in how > would I do it?
Packages are associated with the system. There are no system files in the /home directory. It would be a serious policy violation for an official Debian package to reach into a user's $HOME directory and change things there. However if you are making a private package for your own use only then of course you are free to do anything non-standard that you wished to do. But most of us would probably say it is still a bad idea to do something like that in a .deb package. There have been various questions asking exactly what you are wanting to do. Hard to help without knowing. But let me guess that you would like to modify dot files that control the game. These are things that the user could do themselves but automating the changes could be convenient. For a case such as that I think it would be best to package up the helper script and then simply have the user call the script that makes the change. The package installs the script in /usr/bin/myfooscript and the user simply calls the script to have it edit their files for them. That would seem to be fine. Bob
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