Re: backing up/replacing files from another package
Eric Winger <ewinger@keyww.com> schrieb:
> Jamie Wilkinson was heard to have trumpeted:
>
>> This one time, at band camp, Eric Winger wrote:
>> >I'm thinking there's got to be a "higher level" way of handling this
>> >type of scenario.
>>
>> Firstly, you can't really Depend on and then Replace a package at
>> the same
>> time.
>>
> Can't I even "Depend" on a package and then fine tune its
> configuration though?
Look at
http://people.debian.org/~ajt/sarge_rc_policy.txt
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| Packages must not modify other packages' configuration files
| except by an agreed upon APIs (eg, a /usr/sbin/update-foo command).
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Bye, Frank
--
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
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