On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Santiago Vila wrote: > On Sat, 20 Dec 1997, Scott K. Ellis wrote: > > > [...] stopping these files from being conffiles will .... > > No. This is the most common misunderstanding: I'm *not* saying they > should *all* have to stop being conffiles. I'm saying that they should > be conffiles (when | if) they are useful to be modified, but not > just "because the policy says so". > > The policy does not explain why they should *all* be conffiles.
I can think of a reason to modify almost any /etc/init.d/* script, on the grounds that they effect the startup behavior of the system. Again, making some but not all of them conffiles violates the principal of least suprise. The object here is to make things consistant. Why are you so opposed to them being conffiles anyway, it doesn't make any difference to someone who never changes them.
