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Re: Connffiles?



> If you declare them to be conffiles and the user never touches them, there
> will never be any reason to bother the user when replacing them, as dpkg will
> be able to tell they were not edited. If the user _does_ touch them, that
> qualifies them as conffiles, doesn't it?
> 
> I think it's safe to declare them as conffiles, and it never hurts.

How much CPU time and disk space does conffile processing incur?  In
some ways, it makes sense for all files to be considered conffiles.

David
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David Engel                        Optical Data Systems, Inc.
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