Re: lilo.conf

["Tibor D." <linux_ch@scientist.com>]

Hi,
I like it that by now you can set up lilo with debconf, thats a good 
idea, it's now possible to set lilo up very fast. But: would it be 
possible to leave lilo.conf's original "look and feel"? I mean like when 
you install exim, you can config it with debconf, but the exim.conf 
looks like the original file with all comments in it, so it is easy to 
configure it with some editor afterwards when you need some more 
sophisticated configuration. Unset config-lines stay just commented.
Could you imagin squid.conf without any comments and example-lines? The 
best would be, if your install-script could read the original 
lilo.conflines and present that entries in debconf as "default values".
I think that's *the* greate thing in debian, that one can change the 
original config-files without having fear that some tools will overwrite 
it (thats why I changed from suse to debian. So I could learn much more 
about linux than just living with the "yast").
And the problem with overwriting the old configfile isn't very nice, 
just 1 lilo.conf.old isn't enough, maybe a first possibility would be 
with "logrotate"?
Greetings,
Tibor