Re: Re: resolve.conf specification
Quoting john@dhh.gt.org (john@dhh.gt.org):
> 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.
I'm not sure which package "owns" resolv.conf, but it does appear that
pcmcia-cs is quite happy to mangle it (with /etc/pcmcia/network). Could ppp
not do the same sort of thing? (and apologies if more knowledgable people
have their thinking caps on about this).
Cheers,
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