On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Either never change the file once created; or preserve user changes. > If you never change the file once created, you have nothing to worry > about. It is only when people are changing files that are already in > place in /etc do questions arise.
If a package places a file in /etc(this is a configuration file, but not a conffile), then I as a user/admin remove it, I don't want the package to put a new version in place. Dpkg's conffile code handles this.
