Bug#326637: Should /etc/X11/xkb/* be conffiles at all?
Le vendredi 16 décembre 2005 à 04:03 +0100, ROBERTOJIMENOCA@terra.es a
écrit :
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:28:41PM +0100, J??r??me Warnier wrote:
> > > I wonder if those files should really be conffiles at all, as it is
> > > asking for a lot of confirmations to override with new maintainer's
> > > version from anyone trying to upgrade from one version to another (for
> > > example Sarge to Etch), while those files have never been modified by
> > > the user.
> > >
> > > If they are not conffiles, they should not be in /etc either (they take
> > > 2.4M on my Sarge) by FHS.
> >
> > They are conffiles, yes.
>
> There's a real need to change the definition of conffiles
> then.
> Because having not configuration files like READMEs in /etc is not
> useful and in fact causes lots of problems.
>
> The definition of conffiles I'd like to use would be:
> A conffile is a file where the user changed anything from system
> default.
>
> With this definition READMEs and keybinding standard data files should
> be in /usr since the user didn't change them from the default.
I fully agree, as this was my initial request.
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Jérôme Warnier
FLOSS Consultant
http://beeznest.net
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