On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 09:40:42AM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: > On Jan 7, 2004, at 06:33, Cameron Patrick wrote: > > >Could you avoid the debconf question and use a similar mechanism to > >what the current XFree packages do: generate the file from conf.d, > >unless its md5sum has changed from the generated version. That way > >you don't need to have a debconf question, and when someone edits > >their exim4.conf file, exim Does The Right Thing and doesn't scribble > >all over it. > > That sounds like a really good idea. I believe (don't quote me!) that > the XFree86 packages use ucf for this. No, but I was definitely influenced by my (imperfect) understanding of what ucf was designed to achieve. I did not use ucf because at the time I wanted to use it, I found its documentation too difficult to understand -- it seemed preoccupied with Emacs LISP files and didn't discuss more general usage. It's possible that deficiency has since been corrected. -- G. Branden Robinson | The power of accurate observation Debian GNU/Linux | is frequently called cynicism by branden@debian.org | those who don't have it. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- George Bernard Shaw
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