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From:	"Robert Collins" <robert DOT collins AT itdomain DOT com DOT au>
To:	"Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>,
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Subject:	Re: "RTFM'ing": readily accessible user documentation?
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2002 15:44:41 +1100
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Wilson" <cwilson AT ece DOT gatech DOT edu>
> Should setup.exe *refuse* to install a file called "/usr/info/dir" --
> just to keep us safe?  Or is that setting a bad precedent?  [Or maybe
> upset can "lint" the packages on sourceware, and refuse to add
> foo-1.2.tar.gz to setup.ini if it contains a proscribed file like
> /usr/info/dir]

On my personal TODO list is a command line unix package linter.
Setup.exe may some mechanism to manage state data - /etc/foo.cfg,
/usr/info/dir etc, but I think a simpl solution to catch 99% of cases is
the package linter. And yes, it should refuse to add the package, and
email the maintainer (IMO).

Rob


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