Philip Brown wrote:
> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>>> Bart Smaalders wrote:
>>> FOSS software developers generally don't write postinstall scripts.
>>> Existing packages need to be ported...
>> A lot of FOSS software just doesn't deal with configuration file
>> management at all, so many distributors do it for them in the package
>> scripts.
>>
>
> one might even say, that modern FOSS software developers *expect*
> configuration file management, to be done by the various packaging systems.
But they also seem to be trending away from single static config files shared
by multiple packages that would require scripting to merge - for instance the
Linux pam.d instead of Solaris's pam.conf, so packages can just drop in PAM
configuration files without scripting, or the fontpath.d that Fedora invented,
and we use also now, so we don't have to do mkfontdir or edit the font path
in font package installation.
Of course, I don't think we'll see /etc/passwd.d/* anytime soon...
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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