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Re: Dynamic registration of files to packages



* Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> [20001120 15:12]:
> Another thing to consider is whether its desirable for this to be
> dynamic, or whether it would be better to just mirror the
> debian/conffiles in some way.

This wouldn't work because e.g. /etc/passwd is no conffile.
Furthermore, it wouldn't work for files using update-alternatives.

Perhaps considering debian/conffiles plus having a dynamic mechanism
would be the best solution, but a dynamic way must be provided in any
case.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com

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