On Fri, 2003-04-18 at 15:04, John Hasler wrote: > Colin Walters writes: > > One might be to create a third class of configuration files; let's call > > them "managed configuration files". > > Is the choice to be up to the maintainer? If so, I'm afraid that over time > almost all configfiles would become managed, as that would be the easy way > for maintainers.
No, in my proposal, it's a local system decision. Package maintainers will have to be aware of managed config files, but they don't control which are and which aren't managed.
