Re: how to get debconf or whoever to leave my ntp.conf alone
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 02:04:30PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 April 2002 12:05 pm, Joey Hess wrote:
> > I strobgly sugest you file a bug; debian packages should not behave in
> > this fashion at all.
>
> I strongly suggest that software installation and software configuration
> are two distinctly separate tasks, and while the former should be handled
> by apt/dpkg, the latter should be left to the discretion of the sysadmin
> (pref. with an option to enable auto-configuration on a per-package basis).
>
> The bug is in apt/dpkg.
Do you even know how those tools work? It's up to individual packages,
not the package management tools.
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Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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