On Wed, 23 Nov 2011 11:53:14 +0100 Dennis van Dok <denni...@nikhef.nl> wrote:
> On 23-11-11 10:27, Joseph Gunn wrote: > > > A popular way of accomplishing the task is to support > > "configuration subdirectories" > > > > It includes all "configuration files" in that directory. If you > > publish a name that you will _never_ use then people can add that > > one "as they wish". > > I'm not sure I'm getting the gist of your suggestion; do you mean the > use of /etc/mypackage/conf.d/ or some such? I'm afraid this would > require some heavy patching of the upstream code for reading > configuration files. Perhaps instead you could add a simple utility to make a master config file out of several snippets in a directory. I think quite a few packages do that. The only one I can think of just now is exim4 but that's probably not a very good example because it's complex. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111123143343.316f542c@junior
