Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > The namespace is defined by Debian Policy. The filename should be > > named after the package name. Since the package names must be > > different the file name derived from it must be different. (I think > > it is okay for /etc/default/foo to be part of a foo-common package > > though. The namespace intention has been preserved.) > > It's not always the case: > > /etc/default/alsa created by alsa-base > /etc/default/apache2 created by apache2.2-common > /etc/default/bluetooth created by bluez > /etc/default/bootlogd created by initscripts > /etc/default/cacerts created by ca-certificates-java > /etc/default/cryptdisks created by cryptsetup > /etc/default/decnet created by dnet-common > /etc/default/devpts created by initscripts > /etc/default/halt created by initscripts > /etc/default/keyboard created by keyboard-configuration > /etc/default/locale created by locales > /etc/default/nss created by libc-bin > /etc/default/saned created by sane-utils > /etc/default/ssh created by openssh-server > /etc/default/tmpfs created by initscripts > /etc/default/useradd created by passwd > /etc/default/wicd created by wicd-daemon
Okay I was wrong on the strictly exact names. But most of those do exist within the expected namespace of the parent package. The only ones that are a stretch are devpts and tmpfs. The others are pretty obvious. Bob
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