Bug#329347: [cl-debian] Bug#329347: common-lisp-controller: checking of permissions of the output directory

[René van Bevern]

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. It's the user's
personal space and you never know what he uses ~/.cache for. The
system should never modify the home directory and I do not know of one
single package that does.

	René

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