Julian Gilbey wrote: > On Sun, Jun 17, 2001 at 05:36:34PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > > > Does this change have a rationale (and if so, could it be included in a > > > footnote), or should it be reverted? > > > > > > > The file is expected to be changed, which would trigger the 'get the new > > version?' prompt. Trying to reduce those prompts seems like a good idea. > > > > Not sure if that is the rationale ... > > Yes, it is.
Well I don't know about you, but most of the files in /etc/default on my system do not need to be changed. They're all sensible defaults. They're certianly no more likely to be changed than random other conffiles in /etc (with the single exception of /etc/init.d/ scripts that use defaults files...). In the future, I would appreciate it if policy editors would bring up such changes *before* proposals are accepted, not change them silently after the fact. (This was my proposal, IIRC.) -- see shy jo
