Re: PROPOSAL: Extrafiles (was Re: Conffiles...)
phil@hands.com (Philip Hands) wrote on 10.04.98 in <[🔎] 2421.892233295@hands.com>:
> > I have one point to add to this. Handling files not mentioned
> > in the *.list file was one way of several packages to handle/edit a
> > common file, for example, if a bunch of packages need /etc/foo to
> > exist, and foo can contain the word bar or bah, then any package, in
> > the postinst, finding that /etc/foo did not exist, can question the
> > user and create the file (the other packages then accept it).
>
> In this situation, would it not be better to have an etc-foo package, that
> handles the creation of /etc/foo, and have the other packages depend upon it
> ?
Careful. You're about to outlaw update-alternatives.
MfG Kai
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