On Tue, Jul 28, 1998 at 02:39:52AM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > No. But that's unrelated to md5sums. > > > > For that kind of cleanup we need to have packages say "I'm using this > > value", and we need for package purge to take them off the list. > > Like a proposed "dpkg-vars --purge --package xxx" ? > But I'm not talking about cleanups, but about upgrades. When you upgrade > a package and it wants a new default, it does a DSET. Not the frontend > can do 2 things: it can see the last update was made by a user and > refuse to change the value, or if the last update was made by the package > it changes the value. So it's the same as md5sums. I see, I think. If it wants to set a default it uses DSET. If it NEEDS a value set to something or changed, it does a SET? Then SET should only be used when absolutely necessary. My thoughts were more along the lines of linuxconf but more modular.. Yours seem to me more along the lines of a registry ala windoze.. How do you propose to deal with the shortcomings of that system? Seasoned veterans won't want to use some cutesy front-end, they'd wanna pay with a config file directly when changing settings. They'd likely tollerate the front-end for installation of a new package, but. I'm not going to ask about corruption of the registry---this isn't windoze here and I'm sure you've considered that already.
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