Re: design issues in debian packages
On 20 Dec 2001, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> writes:
>
> >> Would .foo be a conffile? Which file should the user edit?
>
> Adam> .foo, being in /etc, is a conffile. To disable the
> Adam> inclusion completely, the admin would edit .foo, inserting
> Adam> 'exit 1' at the top, just like for most other shell scripts.
>
> This wouldn't work for /etc/devfs/*.d/* files, which are not in sh
> format.
What does that have to do with anything? It's only the .foo files that are
shell scripts(or any other program, for that matter). And .* files should be
ignored by the config fragment reader.
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