>>>>> On Sun, 5 Jul 1998 07:31:30 +0000, Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
Joseph> [1 <text/plain; us-ascii (7bit)>] What does one do in a Joseph> situation where two packages both provide the same conffile? Joseph> Currently they use different names for the file, but both Joseph> packages can (and probably should) use the same file. How Joseph> should this be handled, both from a policy and from an Joseph> implementation standpoint? Joseph> I could create the file in postinst if it doesn't exist, but Joseph> this seems like a Bad Idea<tm> for many reasons. Is there Joseph> really no Right Way to do this except to leave them as two Joseph> seperate files and have the user deal with it however they Joseph> will? [2 <application/pgp-signature>] It's kind of ugly, but you could have a package irc-common with that file in it. (Are there other things that irc clients can share? scripts?) Then it can be treated as a conffile, but neither package owns it. They just depend on irc-common. Dres -- @James LewisMoss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blessed Be! @ http://www.dimensional.com/~dres | Linux is kewl! @"Argue for your limitations and sure enough, they're yours." Bach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
