Re: Rationale for /etc/init.d/* being conffiles?
On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Santiago Vila wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
>
> > [...] stopping these files from being conffiles will ....
>
> No. This is the most common misunderstanding: I'm *not* saying they
> should *all* have to stop being conffiles. I'm saying that they should
> be conffiles (when | if) they are useful to be modified, but not
> just "because the policy says so".
>
> The policy does not explain why they should *all* be conffiles.
I can think of a reason to modify almost any /etc/init.d/* script, on the
grounds that they effect the startup behavior of the system. Again,
making some but not all of them conffiles violates the principal of least
suprise. The object here is to make things consistant. Why are you so
opposed to them being conffiles anyway, it doesn't make any difference to
someone who never changes them.
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