Re: jessie release goals
On 2013-05-13 08:48:33 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 05/13/2013 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> >]] Vincent Lefevre
> >
> >>On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
>
> >>>No, it does not, since the default configuration («Local only»)
> >>>sets
> >>
> >>This is not the default configuration, just the default choice (it
> >>is not written "Default configuration").
> >
> >I'm looking forward to an essay on the differences between «the
> >configuration you end with when selecting the default choice» and
> >«the default configuration».
>
> It seems obvious to me.
>
> The default configuration is the one you get when not specifying any
> configuration at all. (E.g. when you omit a config file entirely, or
> include only a blank config file, or a config file with only comments.)
Via debconf, I assume that this means <Cancel>. With this choice,
debconf switches to "No configuration", which is not "Local only"
(tried with postfix 2.10.0-3).
Actually, "No configuration" makes me think of a default configuration
much more than "Local only".
> The configuration you get when specifying the default choice is whatever
> configuration the default choice defines, which may very well not be the
> same as not specifying any configuration at all.
And the default choice may depend on a previous dpkg-reconfigure
invocation. This makes things ambiguous when one thinks: "I want
to revert to the default configuration". That's not the default
choice.
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