Dmitry Nezhevenko wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 02:44:42PM +0300, Uoti Urpala wrote: > > Wrong. Any program behavior change may require changing custom > > configuration, but such changes need not be accompanied by changes in > > the default configuration file. Currently dpkg lacks any mechanism to
> You are talking about changing "default" values, right? Other cases More generally about things not necessarily directly related to any particular option. For example changing heuristics in the program, which may require using different options to override (even if the options themselves didn't change). > > > With "etc-overrides-lib" it's not possible at all... > > > > This is not true either. You could develop tools that work in this case. > Yeah. I agree. It's _currently_ not possible at all. It is possible the with etc-overrides-libs behavior. Your "_currently_ not possible" is about the current state of the Debian tools, not about etc-overrides-libs. My original point was exactly that the issues are due to limitations of the existing Debian tools, not fundamental problems with the etc-overrides-libs model itself. > But again, it's > possible but introduce new issues complications for users. I don't think it would be any more complicated to use once you're familiar with the model. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1335795081.1766.69.camel@glyph.nonexistent.invalid
