Friday, September 27, 2024

Re: roadmap for more privsep in pkgland

On Fri, Aug 16, 2024 at 11:16:51AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> On 2024/08/15 18:33, Marc Espie wrote:
> > Enter @extraglob
> > ----------------
> >
> > basically: stuff like @extraglob /var/tomcat/conf/
> > will remove the tomcat dir with everything inside it
> >
> > or stuff like
> > @extraglob /var/db/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/
>
> It would be really nice to have a way to do this / @extra without
> triggering "you should also remove X" during (some?) package updates.
>
> I stopped using @extra and friends in most of my ports becausesometimes
> people (understandably) believe that they should follow those messages
> and end up removing important files.

Yeah, I'm aware of the issue, but working on that currently is a bit
complicated for reasons you know.

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