Re: config files

To: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: config files
From: "Decklin Foster" <fosterd@hartwick.edu>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 08:34:05 -0400
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In-reply-to: <[🔎] 394B6E5F.F4EC2963@iname.com>; from tomcato@iname.com on Sat, Jun 17, 2000 at 02:26:08PM +0200
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Tom Cato Amundsen writes:

> Should postrm look for these files and remove them on purge?
> I got a feeling it should not, but since I mention the possibility
> to create the files in the documentation, I ask this question.

I would probably install them empty and mark them as conffiles, thus
removing them on a purge (but not a remove). A bunch of defaults
commented out is always better than an empty file though. IMHO a purge
should not leave anything scattered around in /etc.

Is there a Gnome sub-policy for these types of files?

-- 
There is no TRUTH. There is no REALITY. There is no CONSISTENCY. There
are no ABSOLUTE STATEMENTS. I'm very probably wrong. -- BSD fortune(6)

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