On Mon, Jun 18, 2001 at 02:31:47PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > 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.)
Apologies; I think I was on another planet when I did that. You are of course totally right both about protocol and content. Reverting that change. I'm going to write: It may either be a <tt>conffile</tt> or a configuration file maintained by the package maintainer scripts. See <ref id="config files"> for more details. Julian -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Julian Gilbey, Dept of Maths, Queen Mary, Univ. of London Debian GNU/Linux Developer, see http://people.debian.org/~jdg Donate free food to the world's hungry: see http://www.thehungersite.com/