Re: resolve.conf specification
On Mon, Dec 07, 1998 at 01:27:37PM -0600, john@dhh.gt.org wrote:
> Ben Collins writes:
> > What does this [resolv.conf] have to do with policy?
>
> Packages are not to mess with other packages' conffiles. We had a long and
> inclusive discussion of this on debian-devel earlier this year. There are
> also technical issues having to do with the fact that a package that does
> this must account for all possible configurations. None of this affects an
> admin who chooses to do this, however.
This was not a package question, this was a user wanting to know how they
would resolve this issue in the best possible way. Notice this is on
debian-user@
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