Re: config file handling
Shaleh <shaleh@livenet.net> writes:
> I do not know where to tell the app to look. However I do not feel that
> the gtkrc qualifies as a conf file. The app runs fine w/o it. All a
> gtkrc file does is change the color and pixmap used for appearance. I
> think /usr/share is fine here. The FHS (which we are moving towards)
> puts many things that could go to /etc in /usr/share. And I like it (-:
Whether or not an application runs *without* a file is not any sort of
criteria for whether it is a conffile. Rather, conffiles are files
which are considered modifyiable by the sysadmin under *normal*
circumstances, and in which you would like these local changes to be
preserved across upgrades.
That's the crucial thing to understand. If the file is not recognized
as a conffile by dpkg, then local changes will *not* be preserved
across updates of the package. If this is a bad state of affairs,
then the file should be in /etc and marked as a conffile.
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