On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 12:46:03AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > Also, i think its strange that someone with a debian.org address (by > extension) discourages the use of debconf, which is normal part of a > default debian install.
What's strange about that? debconf is used during installation of packages (and related taks) to interact with the user. There is certainly no requirement that the user use debconf to maintain their system once it's intalled. I certainly don't do such a thing. Remember, files in /etc/ are not to be touched by Debian packages unless the user explicitly requests so via dpkg-reconfigure. You aren't losing anything by not using debconf after installation. Next time you upgrade your system, debconf won't overwrite the changes you've made to files in /etc/. Not only that, but etherconf itself is definitely not a part of the Debian base install. What I originally said was that there's no need to install additional software in order to reconfigure your network interfaces. What I said was absolutely true. noah -- _______________________________________________________ | Web: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/ | PGP Public Key: http://web.morgul.net/~frodo/mail.html
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