Previously Raul Miller wrote: > I thought you were trying to emulate what dpkg does with its conffiles?
I'm aiming for the same effect, not the same method. > If the conffile exactly matches what was supplied by the package last > time around, it gets replaced. And if the tag says it was last set by the package you don't need to check the value, you already know it was a previous default. Maybe I should have called it a "isdefault" tag instead (or add another tag for that, I'll have to think about that some more). > Now you're saying that packages won't share values? I neved said that. The text says: This space is divided into different sections in the same way a filesystem is. The toplevel-hiearchy is for package: each package has it's own configuration data in a folder of the root. Packages which share a common purpose may use a shared folder, preferable with the same as as a shared (virtual) packagename. What other shared values did you have in mind? (hmm, install-mime comes to mind, but that shouldn't be hard to add in this scheme. I'm a bit too sleepy now to really work that out). Wichert.
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