On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 05:45:52PM -0500, Jerry Haltom wrote: > I would like to ask why Debconf is not a registry. Policy section 10.7.3. > It would be EXTREMELY useful if packages were smart about local/Debconf > settings. Merging changes in both of them in order to determine the > actual setting. If one changes a local file, you would expect that > change to persist, but if one changes a Debconf setting, you would > expect that to persist. In fact, if one changes a Debconf setting > manually, I'd expect it to override local settings.... that's what > pushing settings is all about. Then use something other than Debconf. Local settings are NOT to be overridden. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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