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Koen Kooi schrieb:
>
> NACK!
>
> +do_install() {
> [..]
> +    install -d ${D}/home/root
> +    install -m 0600 .blackboxrc ${D}/home/root
>
> A package NEVER EVER touches $HOME. NEVER! I wish ascii could produces 
> some bigger capitals that blink and have baseballbats to get the point 
> across, but sadly it can't.
>
> Imagine I don't log in as root and fire up packagekit to install that 
> packages. I don't get the .blackboxrc, but the root user suddenly has 
> his .blackboxrc overwritten without notice.
>
> So:
>
> A package NEVER EVER touches $HOME. NEVER!
>
> ${sysconfdir} exists for a reason.
>
Ok, I added a second version of the patch to the bugtracker which 
implements your suggestion.

I did use ${HOME} in the first version because it is the standard 
location for blackbox configuration [1].

Is there any way for a clean implementation to put the config to the 
standard location? With e.g postinstall? I don't like the idea of not 
using a standard location but I agree that hardcode to /home/root can 
cause trouble.


best regards
Bernhard Guillon

1 
http://blackboxwm.sourceforge.net/BlackboxDocumentation/BlackboxConfiguration#location