Julian Gilbey wrote: > No, it isn't at all. Any configuration files MUST reside in /etc. > These are not configuration files (the sorts of things used to > configure a package), but score/state files, if I recall correctly. > So how about this scheme:
conffile != configuration file There has been a consensus recently (for reasons that I don't remember at the moment) that binary score files and such used by games should not be managed as conffiles. That applies to crafty, but crafty is worth an exception to the rule (which is not stated in policy anyway) because these files are *big*. -rw-rw-r-- root/games 4442112 2001-02-20 22:08:02 ./var/lib/crafty/book.bin Requiring these be two copies of that file would be bad. Of course the conffiles mechanism will result in multiple copies of it anyway if the contents of the file as shipped in the package ever change.. -- see shy jo
