On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > * If no existing file with the intended target name exists, or if > > the existing file has identical content to the file to be > > installed, the file to be installed is installed as normal. > > I would much prefer new files to be treated as if replacing an > existing zero length file. When something is installed into /etc, > etc-update should alert me to this, because logically speaking a > new configuration file is a big configuration change. > > Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the config > protection area, and it should be up to tools like etc-update to > (configurably) automerge new files and identical files, just like > it can be configured to automerge trivial/comment changes. >
I disagree. If there is a sane default configuration for something (which is most things), I want it installed, so it works out of the box. I don't want to have to fiddle with config files to get sshd up and running. Obviously, if there's no sane default configuration (samba?), then the installed configuration shouldn't do anything. Daniel
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