[Bug: 21.4.15] PUI problems

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "SY" == Steve Youngs <sryoungs at bigpond.net.au> writes:

    SY> The code is working as I intended.  What I was trying to
    SY> prevent is the situation where someone is running "in-place".
    SY> In that situation as soon as you update your packages via PUI
    SY> your `cvs up's will be borked.

Can't PUI just check for the existence of CVS directories, and require
confirmation if they are present?

    SY> What I'm thinking is that I'll default the package-index
    SY> location to a system wide place if the UID is 0 (zero),

Why not default to the system-wide location if file-writable-p?  That
fixes the case for single-user systems, too (modulo the Windows bug
where many people expect the read-only bit to be "advisory").

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