Re: "All packages use debconf"
On Wed, 18 Jul 2001, Colin Walters wrote:
> not. I certainly wouldn't expect a maintainer to go to all the
> trouble of doing that, as it's not entirely trivial in most cases. For
Well, if they will not, they should be forbidden to do it at all. Being
there, got bugged to hell to fix it, fixed it.
It's not like there are not enough examples of how to do it right in lots of
packages...
> package maintainers who chose not to implement it, the above algorithm
> I think would nicely preserve the ability to use dpkg-reconfigure, yet
> make sure that the user's conffiles aren't modified without
> confirmation.
Modifying user config files without authorization or confirmation is EVIL,
and should be dealt with swiftly (i.e. severe bug, for violating the number
one rule: THOU SHALL NOT OVERRIDE THE LOCAL ADMIN WISHES).
Debconf is a wonderful tool, but it can be abused to create hideous beasts,
best left alone in RH land. If policy still allows config files to be
mishandled, it is past time to fix that oversight.
--
"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
Henrique Holschuh
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