Dirk Eddelbuettel writes [SuperCite undone]: > Ian Jackson writes, answering a question of mine: > > No. I suppose I'm suggesting that the browser packages use a shared > > file like /etc/default-www-home or something, in much the same way as > > other packages use /etc/mailname, /etc/news/server and /etc/papersize. > > Exactly. Several people, me included, have proposed similar schemes. Could > the maintainers for WWW programs please join the debate? Shall such a file be > part of a 'doc-debian' package?
No, the file shouldn't be part of any package - it should be created by the postinst of the first package that needs it. It should not be included in any package, even as a conffile. In any case, you wouldn't want to make all the WWW browsers depend on debian-doc or whatever. Ian.
