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Re: about the debian way



Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net> writes:

> That's exactly what's happened. See bug 138484. Apparently the
> suggestion that a user simply edit a file is now considered insulting
> and against "the debian way", even though that ability to modify is
> considered one of the core benefits of free software. I'll note that the
> other respondent to this thread came up with the same suggestion.

     Some of the previous posters to this thread seem to be
overlooking the fact that /etc/cron.daily/standard is a conffile, and
therefore changes will be protected across upgrades. 

Bob
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