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Re: lintian whining about app-defaults file



On Sat, Mar 17, 2001 at 07:42:57AM -0300, Henrique M Holschuh wrote:
> On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Colin Watson wrote:
> > >The irony is: For my particular program, the standard "app-defaults" file
> > >SHOULD NOT BE CONSIDERED A "CONF-FILE"!
> 
> Then it doesn't belong in /etc. It is that simple.
> 
> /etc IS NOT A DUMPING GROUND!. In most systems, it is part of /, it has size
> constraints, and it is supposed to hold only configuration files (conffiles
> or files directly derived of conffiles).

I'm following the X conventions. It's an app-defaults file, so I'm using
InstallAppDefaults()
It's the one that's putting it in /etc



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