Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>"Thomas" == Thomas Bushnell, BSG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Thomas> I think the situation is: Emacs policy is inadvertently > Thomas> wrong. Emacs policy should be fixed. Maintainers who are > Thomas> conforming to Emacs policy should not be blamed for following > Thomas> the rules that they thought they should follow. Once the > Thomas> emacs policy is fixed, the packages that use it should then > Thomas> be fixed. > > Could you explain to me, please, exactly what bits of the > emacs policy are wrong? I seem to have missed those.
It tells people to put files in /etc which are really not conffiles, and aren't marked as such. (I'm not saying that *none* of those files are really conffiles; just that many of them are perfectly ordinary programs.)
