Re: magicfilter and /etc
On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 07:31:37PM +0300, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
>On Fri, May 15, 1998 at 12:55:46AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
>> On Sat, May 09, 1998 at 09:03:53PM +0200, David Frey wrote:
>> > * made all the magicfilter scripts conffiles (Fixes Bug
>> > #4834, but wastes space)
>>
>> Well, just to put some more confusion into this
>> discussion: I think that these magicfilter scripts (and
>> most of their source code) should be considered sample
>> material and go to /usr/doc. The xh files should go
>> somewhere in /usr/lib (similar to /usr/lib/sendmail.cf
>> from the sendmail package), and /usr/doc should have some
>> explanations for the user on how to build their own
>> filters. These filters clearly are a _script_ in the
>> "language" magicfilter, and should IMHO go to some place
>> under /usr/local.
>
>I disagree; they are not "examples", but actual data: there is an utility
>"magicfilterconfig" which edit /etc/printcap to point to the selected filter.
I agree with Fabrizio and Andreas.
>Previous version used to have all those files in a tarball under /usr/doc
>
>My suggestion was (and still is) to put the tarball (which is "archived data")
>into /usr/lib/ and to have magicfilterconfig extract the selected filter and
>install it in /etc/magicfilter (and adapt /etc/printcap)
>In this way you don't need to have them marked conffiles and you don't waste
>space in /etc.
This was exactly the solution before I fixed Bug #4834.
I generally would favor this solution over the current one, but the
current one has the advantage of listing the filter-conffiles directly in
the dpkg-listing (it fits better with current policy).
David
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