On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 12:20:44AM -0500, Ron wrote: > Isn't that how everyone does it? Even in Debian/woody, there > are .conf files in more places than just the /etc tree.
Reading configuration (that the user might be expected to change) out of anywhere other than /etc is considered a bug ... > A Debian policy-that-I-think-is-a-quirk: there is the the concept > of the meta-package. mail-transport-agent is an example. When, > for example, you install exim, mail-transport-agent is also > installed. If you want to install postfix to test it out, apt > will remove exim, since the exim & postfix packages are both > members of the same meta-package. That's a virtual package. (Meta-packages are something else - they're real packages that exist for the sole purpose of depending on other packages for convenience.) They do provide quite a lot of flexibility. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
