Anthony Towns wrote: > On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 08:48:36PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > Anthony Towns wrote: > > > So list them. > > Good first step, but then: Fix the config file formats so that there are > > other ways to get the desired result than deleting the file. > > Well, so far the only examples are daemons that don't start when their > config files are removed, ones that have a particular default behaviour > when no config file's present and things like /etc/cron.*. This topic came up on debian-user in the past 3 weeks (or limit of my medium-term memory ;-), and there were other examples of more significant files there. > > The put it in policy that config files should offer some way to > > <do whatever> other than only deleting them. > > And even cron.* scripts can be handled without deleting them: just clear > the file. It's not pleasant, but it _works_. So do leading comments, I hope.. -- see shy jo
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