"Thomas Gebhardt" <gebhardt@HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE> writes: > Hi, > > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > That's really fine. > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why? Configuration goes in /etc, state goes in /var. Steve dunham@cse.msu.edu