Previously Raul Miller wrote: > But md5sums are much smaller than most files, so more space efficient to > store than a complete copy of the file.
But use a per-variable tag which indicates if a package or user has set it is takes much less space then a md5sums. And it allows much finer-grained checking: per variable instead of per configuration file. > (2) A package should be able to say: flush all the old things which > are associated with me, here's the current set... But since each package gets it's own hierarchy in the configuration space you can just remove that hierarchy and you're done. Wichert.
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