On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 04:37:27PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > Branden Robinson wrote: > > I don't really see the harm in shipping it as long as your postinst sets it > > right when it runs. > > By the time the postinst runs, the user's changes will have been wiped > out by dpkg. > > Sure, you could preserve them in the preinst, fix things up in the > postinst, but it seems unnecessarily round-about. Yeah, I thought I could think of a scenario where my proposed mechanism would be preferable, but upon trying, I can't. -- G. Branden Robinson | One man's theology is another man's Debian GNU/Linux | belly laugh. branden@debian.org | -- Robert Heinlein http://www.debian.org/~branden/ |
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