On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:47:33PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I do not know where to tell the app to look. However I do not feel that > > the gtkrc qualifies as a conf file. The app runs fine w/o it. All a > > gtkrc file does is change the color and pixmap used for appearance. I > > think /usr/share is fine here. The FHS (which we are moving towards) > > puts many things that could go to /etc in /usr/share. And I like it (-: > > Whether or not an application runs *without* a file is not any sort of > criteria for whether it is a conffile. Rather, conffiles are files > which are considered modifyiable by the sysadmin under *normal* > circumstances, and in which you would like these local changes to be > preserved across upgrades. > > That's the crucial thing to understand. If the file is not recognized > as a conffile by dpkg, then local changes will *not* be preserved > across updates of the package. If this is a bad state of affairs, > then the file should be in /etc and marked as a conffile.
what is with the 'config'-files in /var/lists/* from smartlist. This files are only modified by the sysadmin/listadmin. Some files in /var/named/* are also config-files, or not? Should we move this to debian-policy? Grisu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
