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Re: Are all map files configuration files?



Florent Rougon <f.rougon@free.fr> schrieb:

> Otherwise, I think it is a good idea. The only problem I can see with
> this approach is if some of the files have to move to another package
> later (for instance, tetex-extra, or something like a tetex-fonts
> package), because dpkg will prompt the user I think. But this is really
> a problem in dpkg.

Yes, it is.

> (Branden faced this issue with XFree 4.3 and decided
> to let some packages like xlibs just for the conffiles they contain, but
> I can understand his decision since in that case, actually migrating the
> conffiles would cause the user to see about 350 prompts about changed
> conffiles... very nice, isn't it? ;-)

In our case, I think ucf could do it quite well.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie



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