Re: dpkg config files in /etc ?
"Thomas Gebhardt" <gebhardt@HRZ.Uni-Marburg.DE> writes:
> 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?
Steve Dunham wrote:
> Configuration goes in /etc, state goes in /var.
But the access method is not a state, it's a configuration.
One could also argue that the list of selected packages is also a
configuration since it results directly from user _selection_ (almost a
synonym for configuration).
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