[Sugar-devel] Check for binaries, not config files, when deciding if a tool is installed

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Michael (and others),

Not sure, but it seems from src/sugar/activity/activityfactory.py 
(approx. line 250) of recent sugar-toolkit that rainbow is used if the 
path /etc/olpc-security exists on the system.

If that is correct, then I recommend changing that to instead test for 
the existence of some binary, as the Debian packaging system (and most 
probably other packaging systems as well) preserve configuration files 
when removing a package. Only whn a package is "purged" are 
configuration files removed - and even then directories may be kept if 
it contains other files (e.g. backup files from various editors) not 
installed by the package.


Kind regards,

  - Jonas

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