Re: Conffiles and Configuration files (again)
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On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Anthony Towns wrote:
> What I'd like to propose, therefore, is extending the "conffile" label
> to cover all configuration files.
Why do you want to do that?
Why should I want to be asked each time I upgrade the system because of
local files like /etc/init.d/networks, /etc/timezone, /etc/papersize
or /etc/gpm.conf, to name a few?
> This would, as well as providing a list of just about everything in /etc,
> eliminate any remaining confusion about what the difference between
> a conffile and a configuration file is.
Confusion? What confusion? :-)
A configuration file is a conffile when the package maintainer decided
to let dpkg to handle it via the conffile mechanism.
Is there anything wrong with the above definition?
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