Jean-Christophe Dubacq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:53:00PM +0100, Alexander Schmehl wrote: >> > Although this clutters up /etc they could be saved as *.dpkg-last or >> > so. New packages' conffiles can be saved as *.dpkg-new just like dpkg >> > currently does if one chooses not to install the new file. Before a >> > new version is installed *.dpkg-new would be renamed to *.dpkg-last. >> >> ... and they will probably deleted my many admins thinking they are not >> needed. I don't think you can count on leaving them in /etc and finding >> them again.
Everyone is free to break his own system. ;-) The consequence would be minimal. dpkg would just fall back to the current behavior. > > And why shouldn't they. If anything, this should belong to > /var/lib/dpkg/ You are right. This is the logical place. Matthias -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
