-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Joey Hess wrote:
> Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > Compared to that, the default files are puerile. It is > > annoying to have little control over my home directory as root, and > > b) have to delete those files over and over again since they mess up > > ls -asCF output. > > If they were conffiles, you could delete them once and never see them again > (dpkg doesn't replace deleted conffiles ever). You are right, but having a .bash_profile.dpkg-dist.dpkg-dist would be too much :-) Anyway, I think this is a bug in dpkg (not asking about removed conffiles) and I don't think it is right to make a program to "benefit" from bugs in other programs... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNPR0iyqK7IlOjMLFAQE3uwP9FnFgVLHzi/sL9/VmTcsHTJrzEFZADnk1 k9QIpq9OCeoHcqDeVxoeBABX7ULgFchEdYXfIjVpFbF9h8AObHcHdB6alhwWNwLE CdsrnD7t+a2rEAV8mpHBcW/h+MAo+qlFyImAVGm5BqgcRLINw5XH7r0aUbk4Fu1F /+ydepLz7Lg= =Wuih -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
