On 2013-05-13 08:48:33 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 05/13/2013 08:33 AM, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >]] Vincent Lefevre > > > >>On 2013-05-13 13:32:51 +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > > >>>No, it does not, since the default configuration («Local only») > >>>sets > >> > >>This is not the default configuration, just the default choice (it > >>is not written "Default configuration"). > > > >I'm looking forward to an essay on the differences between «the > >configuration you end with when selecting the default choice» and > >«the default configuration». > > It seems obvious to me. > > The default configuration is the one you get when not specifying any > configuration at all. (E.g. when you omit a config file entirely, or > include only a blank config file, or a config file with only comments.)
Via debconf, I assume that this means <Cancel>. With this choice, debconf switches to "No configuration", which is not "Local only" (tried with postfix 2.10.0-3). Actually, "No configuration" makes me think of a default configuration much more than "Local only". > The configuration you get when specifying the default choice is whatever > configuration the default choice defines, which may very well not be the > same as not specifying any configuration at all. And the default choice may depend on a previous dpkg-reconfigure invocation. This makes things ambiguous when one thinks: "I want to revert to the default configuration". That's not the default choice. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[email protected]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
