[arch-general] A Couple of Questions about files under etc which owned by no package

Tom Gundersen teg at jklm.no
Fri Mar 16 14:24:15 EDT 2012


On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Leonid Isaev <lisaev at umail.iu.edu> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:23:03 +0800
> I don't think checking ownership of files in /etc/ makes much sense, as these
> files are supposed to be added by user/daemons. For example, a lot of files
> under /etc/cups are not owned by cups...

+100 to that. It makes no sense (I should have pointed that out in my
first email). I guess the only place it really makes sense is under
/usr (and the dirs that will hopefully move to /usr soon, i.e. /bin,
/sbin and /lib).

-t


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