Re: make most files conffiles?
On Mon, 23 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Roderick Schertler wrote:
> > Why not make most files conffiles? If the admin changes a file it
> > seems to me that treating it with dpkg's conffile handling would be
> > much better than the current behavior of silently losing the changes.
>
> Too much overhead, I'd think.
I believe this has already been discussed in the past. AFAIK the consensus
was that it is too much overhead.
Besides, no admin should be changing files in /usr except in /usr/local.
If you compile your own programs, put them under /usr/local and make sure
that /usr/local/bin comes before /usr/bin in your PATH (it is by default,
I think). The rest of /usr "belongs" to "The OS Vendor" which, in this
case, is Debian.
If you still want to change files see dpkg-divert, which is in the dpkg
package.
Remco
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