Once upon a time Jason Rennie said... > On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 02:09:08AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > > The debconf database is nothing more than a temporary cache of answers > > gotten from the user. Debconf will regenerate this data by asking any > > questions it needs to. > > If the Debian designers had this attitude, everything would go into > /var/cache: > > What, you want to run oowriter? Oops, just deleted that from my > cache. Downloading openoffice.org-bin.deb from www.debian.org. > Please wait.
Worse than that. All configuration files could be stored in /var/cache with this logic, since vi can just regenerate this data by getting you to type it in again. As I see it, if debconf is asking you the questions again, *it* is not regenerating the data, but *you* are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
