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Re: Configuration DB



On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote:
> The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers
> gotten from the user.  Debconf will regenerate this data by asking any
> questions it needs to.

If the Debian designers had this attitude, everything would go into
/var/cache:

  What, you want to run oowriter?  Oops, just deleted that from my
  cache.  Downloading openoffice.org-bin.deb from www.debian.org.
  Please wait.

Jason



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