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

郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) techlivezheng at gmail.com
Sat Mar 17 02:18:13 EDT 2012


2012/3/17 Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>:
> 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

I understand that of cause, I just want do make sure there are any
left over config files there after I uninstal some package.

Any way, thank you all.

Regards
Techlvie Zheng


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