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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
To: XEmacs Developers <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Ownership of installed files
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I think we should take the unequivocal position that "file
perms/ownership are the installer's hairball".  We aren't
going to get it right in an install script that is run on 27
different operating systems.  The only files we should fiddle
specially with are the ones that really need special perms, i.e.
loadst, movemail.

