On Sat, Mar 12, 2005 at 05:52:01PM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> Please consider implementing a new way to have per-user debconf
> configuration which is actually used when packages are installed via
> sudo. One possibility would be a system-wide setting which restores
> the old behavior, reading $HOME/.debconfrc instead of
> `getpwuid($>)[7]`/.debconfrc. So root would have to decide whether to
> take the clearly existing security risk or not.
>
> The way it is now in sarge/sid, the local administrators are forced to
> do weird script origies to simulate the intended behavior. I believe
> it is better to give them enough rope to hang themselves with stock
> debconf.
I added this for rather different reasons, but does it help?
* If DEBCONF_SYSTEMRC is set to a file that exists, use it in preference
to the system debconf.conf files.
(only in svn, not released yet)
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