Steve Greenland wrote:
template, you should just ship the default. (Note that the choice is
Or ask if you want this file to be managed by debconf, if not, install a default config and have a mechanism much like conffiles to update it in the future.
Is there a method to dynamically keep a list of conffiles for a package? Can this be done?
Who said anything about unattended installs? I'm talking about the poor newbie doing her first install and having to wade through a bunch of fine-tuning that she can't, as yet, have an opinion about.
Those users should use a debconf priority setting that keeps them away from the trivial stuff.
I like debconf. I don't like the amount of trivia some maintainers want to force the user to deal with, rather than just picking a reasonable default. It's a copout.
Fix the priority levels then. Force developers to make the changes. -- Scott Dier <dieman@ringworld.org> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org