Re: dpkg / apt equivalent to 'rpm -qf'?
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Seems to me the idea of creating configuration files on the fly is
> broken. I much prefer this:
Yes, so how exactly, for example, is phpmyadmin supposed to touch files,
such as httpd.conf, so that it works and is properly configured *when
it is installed*? Hmm? If httpd.conf was "owned" by apache, no other
package could touch it (I think we all agree allowing this would be a
mess), how can it modify the file to allow itself to work? The is why
some configuration files are created upon installation and not owned
by any package.
So we have a tradeoff. I prefer having to do a little hunting to
figure out which package created the file than, as on a SuSE or Red
Hat system, have completely misconfigured software all over the system.
You ignore the fact that almost all red hat packages, when installed,
are broken. I think that is a far bigger problem. You are forgetting
that Debian has taken the packaging system far, far beyond anything Red
Hat or SuSE have done.
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