Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >> The problem with that is, as pointed out in the bug report, is that now >> both the debconf database and language.dat are under /var, where backups >> are rarely done on homeusers systems, and he wants it under >> /etc. > > Er, if you're not backing up /var/lib, that's your own damn fault.
Of course, but that's what the latest bug report was about. And I can understand the reporter: If you've got a fckd up desktop system and some Debian CD's at hand, plus your backups of /home, /usr/local and /etc, you're not going to loose much - neither time nor data. > There's been plenty of argument over this, but > no one who could do the work to fully parse the config files seems > willing to spend the time on it. I hope that ucf might present a solution (although I've only heard rumors about it) >> I would prefer it to be under /etc also because it _is_ a configuration >> file, and thus it belongs there. But to preserve the possibility of >> local additions, I would like to find a way for co-existence of >> debconf-managed and manually-edited parts. > > I would say that, even though this is a cop-out, it's a better solution > than what's in place for tetex today. Hm, so this is in contrast to what Colin and Andreas said, as far as we think about a quick-and-dirty solution. Comments? Bye, Frank -- Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie
