On Fri Apr 18, 07:06pm -0400, David B Harris wrote: > I'm thinking in the "may I upgrade your configuration file?" question, > have the options I mentioned before ("no", "yes", "always-no"). > > How's that sound? It's unobtrusive, only adding a third option. We > ensure that /etc/conffiles/* is *extroardinarily* easy to deal with (we > can have a tool to do this for us, akin to > update-rc.d/update-inetd/etc), they'll only get changed when the user > tells us to change them, they're perfectly capable of changing it > themselves manually, and we end up with no more questions than we have > now. >
Gar. We'd still need always-yes to deal with the case I raised. Don't like it, but ...
pgpwpHDeAJjRA.pgp
Description: PGP signature