On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 06:36:14PM +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Steve Langasek <vorlon@netexpress.net> schrieb: > >> The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now > >> both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups > >> are rarely done on homeusers systems, and he wants it under > >> /etc. > > Er, if you're not backing up /var/lib, that's your own damn fault. > Of course, but that's what the latest bug report was about. And I can > understand the reporter: If you've got a fckd up desktop system and some > Debian CD's at hand, plus your backups of /home, /usr/local and /etc, > you're not going to loose much - neither time nor data. I don't accept that premise. I have 127MB in /var/lib on my home machine, and I suspect I would miss at least some of it if it went away. At a glance, there seems to be 1.1MB stored in /var/lib/kde, and Samba would store any printer driver settings (among other things) in /var/lib/samba -- Samba certainly has applications on home networks. > > There's been plenty of argument over this, but > > no one who could do the work to fully parse the config files seems > > willing to spend the time on it. > I hope that ucf might present a solution (although I've only heard > rumors about it) It seems promising, though there wasn't a very clear step-by-step guide for implementing it last I looked. :) -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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