On 19/09/2012 17:52, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > On 12-09-19 at 05:27pm, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: >> ]] Jean-Christophe Dubacq >> >>> And this means that automatic management is hard, because they are >>> generated by scripts, and as such, not easy to store, compare to >>> default, etc. >> >> «default» doesn't really make any sense when it's a template that's >> filled in by debconf/maintainer scripts. > > In most cases default means what is consistently resolved when > installing the package non-interactively. > > ...but for packages whose postinst scripts actually taking MAC address, > moon phase or other out-of-band data into account, you are right.
What one wants usually is all manually entered modifications. So, the result of the postinst script in non-interactive mode is exactly what I want (to be able to diff against). Sincerly, -- Jean-Christophe Dubacq
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