On 2016-03-24, David Christensen <dpchr...@holgerdanske.com> wrote: > On 03/23/2016 07:46 PM, John Hasler wrote: >> David Christensen writes: >>> If I am running version N, have changed the configuration file to M', >>> and then upgrade to version N+1, you're saying dist-upgrade throws >>> away +X and -Y. I may want or need those. >> >> The package management system will notice that you have changed the >> file. You will be asked if you want to keep the old version, install >> the new one, look at a diff, or shell out and do something else. > > Okay -- not as grim as I thought.
Yeah, it's like there are people behind the scenes thinking these things out ahead of time or something! > > David > > -- Hypertext--or should I say the ideology of hypertext?--is ultrademocratic and so entirely in harmony with the demagogic appeals to cultural democracy that accompany (and distract one’s attention from) the ever-tightening grip of plutocratic capitalism. - Susan Sontag
