On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 10:18:08PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Seems to me the idea of creating configuration files on the fly is > broken. I much prefer this:
Yes, so how exactly, for example, is phpmyadmin supposed to touch files, such as httpd.conf, so that it works and is properly configured *when it is installed*? Hmm? If httpd.conf was "owned" by apache, no other package could touch it (I think we all agree allowing this would be a mess), how can it modify the file to allow itself to work? The is why some configuration files are created upon installation and not owned by any package. So we have a tradeoff. I prefer having to do a little hunting to figure out which package created the file than, as on a SuSE or Red Hat system, have completely misconfigured software all over the system. You ignore the fact that almost all red hat packages, when installed, are broken. I think that is a far bigger problem. You are forgetting that Debian has taken the packaging system far, far beyond anything Red Hat or SuSE have done. -- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ / \ ( t | i | m | @ | i | t | . | k | p | t | . | c | c ) \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ \_/ GPG key fingerprint = 1DEE CD9B 4808 F608 FBBF DC21 2807 D7D3 09CA 85BF -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
