On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 09:56:57PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 10:55:06AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > > On Thu, 10 May 2012, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > > You're pretty much just saying that dpkg and helpers like ucf have > > > implemented better functionality than rpm. I don't see how that's > > > relevant to the discussion. > > > > The reason why it is relevant is because in the etc-overrides-lib > > model you are unable to trivially merge local changes with upstream or > > packaging changes unless you add additional logic in the postinst to > > handle etc-overrides-lib. Having configuration files in /etc and using > > ucf or similar enables you to deal with this problem easily. > > In the etc-overrides-lib model, program defaults and local > configuration are effectively being merged every time the program > starts. [...]
Apparently I was mistaken and that's not what's usually implemented. So this really does look like a workaround for stupid package managers. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120511010208.gg4...@decadent.org.uk