-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 08:07:45PM -0700, David Christensen 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.
It's actually one of the things which has kept me as a happy Debian user all the time, In a way, I feel respected as an admin of my system: /etc is *my* green (as are /usr/local et al), the usual /bin, /var, /usr/bin and so on are the distro's. It's a clear contract. That doesn't mean "they" are out to "get me": if I changed something on /etc and the original version evolved behind my back (e.g. more config options), Debian goes out of its way to notice the situation and help me fixing it. Compare this to some uber-tentacl-y admin tools with no clear limits about which parts of the system they are supposed to touch or to leave alone (they've gotten better over the years, admittedly). Debian treats me as a grown-up, and I appreciate that deeply. - -- t -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlbzotkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYmAwCfa5AP8FUlcOQplBk5ogOnVsd2 ZC8AnRBYqBITCT2Ed0QgTD85E+5i8Gx3 =gMGq -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
