On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 13:46, Stephen Frost wrote: > I see this as totally bogus. Either the conffile is shared or it isn't. > If it's shared then the packages involved know this Package foo which eliminates /etc/foo.conf doesn't "know" that there is not some other package, bar, which Depends on foo and uses /etc/foo.conf . That's the problem. See #108587 for additional discussion. -- Thomas