On Ma, 28 ian 20, 09:59:44, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2020 at 07:54:47PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > As that package apparently is required for the Mate desktop, it's > > likely that to resolve this that you'll need to comment the lines in > > that file as root and note that package upgrades may overwrite your > > commented file with the one supplied with the package. > > This would be a Debian policy violation. /etc is taboo, sysadmin > overrides (you get asked at upgrade, though, so some vigilance is > in order). It seems to me you are conflating dpkg conffiles[1] with files in /etc. [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ap-pkg-conffiles.html Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser
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