Re: Linuxconf
Hi,
>>"Craig" == Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> writes:
Craig> debian currently has 1956 packages. most of them require a config file.
Craig> do you think having that many individual parsers is viable?
Most?
__> dpkg -l | grep ^ii | wc -l
1182
__> ls -1 /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.conffiles | wc -l
188
So, out of 1182 packages installed, 188 have
conffiles. (16%). However, lots of conf files fall into the # starts
a comment, and config files are key = value pair.
Of course, some of them are make snippets or Perl or Sh
snippets. Dunno how many individual parsers shall be really required.
Coercing packages to conform to the config tool seems to be
suboptimal, though.
manoj
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