A lot of packages install stuff in the user directory.
Mozilla, Gimp, OpenOffice, KDE, GNOME, etc., will all create their
own directories under ~/. and install a shitload of crap.
Sometimes, their offer to upgrade from a previous version,
and optionally offer to delete cruft from previous versions.
On 21.09.05, Faré wrote:
Hi Faré,
> The only possible downside is having to walk /etc/passwd to locate
> all the places where to purge the cache, if you wish to do such
> thing.
No, it is the plain and true evil for package maintainer scripts to
delete or modify files in users' home directories.
Yet another reason why the only sensible thing for a per-user cache is
to use ~/.cache: it is automatically safe with respect to whichever policy
is defined by the administrator and/or user for access rights, disk quotas,
etc, with no race condition to check for. The only possible downside is
havin
Hello!
On Wed 21 Sep 2005 11:23 +0200, Friedrich Dominicus wrote:
> Well AFAIFK is the standard policy for adding new users to the
> system as follows.
> - the user is created
> - a groups is created also
>
> so if I do a
> adduser foobar
> a group foobar will generated to
AFAIK the group cr
Package: common-lisp-controller
Version: 4.18
Severity: minor
Well AFAIFK is the standard policy for adding new users to the system
as follows.
- the user is created
- a groups is created also
so if I do a
adduser foobar
a group foobar will generated to
If that is true then the following che
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