On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 08:21:42PM -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: > This discussion has been started in debian-devel, but as I saw that a > policy change is needed, I'm bringing it to the correct list. > > Proposal: > Include a control file like "conffiles" into the debian package in a > way the dotfiles and directories in user's home directory can be easily > related to the debian package. > > Objective: > Allowing the creation of a program (suggested name: "usersconfpurge") > that the user will run and say "I don't use icewm anymore, please remove > its configuration files from my home dir". This doesn't need to be a control file, and doesn't need to be covered by policy. Go write the program and then ask people to install the necessary data files for it. It should be fairly simple. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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