On Monday 30 January 2006 07:41, Thomas de Grenier de Latour wrote:
> Another example of such issues is when i installed laptop-mode
> tools for the first time: it messed my acpid configuration, because
> it was adding in /etc/acpi/{events,actions}.d some handlers for
> things i had already configured differently in my own scripts.
>
> That's that kind of situation i would like to avoid when there are
> simple ways to do it, and not any file installation to /etc.
I have similar gripes with logrotate.d. Most files in there are the ones I
made myself. Specifically I have a different setup for the syslog files.
In a different file. Everytime I merge a package I need to remove it
again.
A similar issue is with cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly}. One might not
want to run updatedb every day, but every week. Moving the file
accomplishes that until an update puts the file in again. Only making a
fake file "fixes" that.
Paul
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