On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 02:03:25AM +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:28:41PM +0100, Jerome Warnier wrote: > > I wonder if those files should really be conffiles at all, as it is > > asking for a lot of confirmations to override with new maintainer's > > version from anyone trying to upgrade from one version to another (for > > example Sarge to Etch), while those files have never been modified by > > the user. > > > > If they are not conffiles, they should not be in /etc either (they take > > 2.4M on my Sarge) by FHS. > > They are conffiles, yes.
The question is whether these files should be conffiles at all. IMO this is a very good question, I had a look (not closely though) at your transition to xkeyboard-config and it seems to me that the fact that XKB files are conffiles made this transition more difficult. On the other hand, people sometimes want to modify such files (#236252 for instance) and do not want to lose their changes when upgrading. Maybe a solution is to have files installed by packages under a given directory $dir1 (under /usr?), sysadmins can add/customize files under /etc, and a magic command run after editing /etc files would merge /etc and $dir1 into $dir2 (under /var?). X clients and servers should then be modified to look for their files under $dir2:$dir1. Do you believe that this is feasible/desirable? Denis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
