Daniel Gryniewicz wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:47 +0200, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> > Ideally the package manager would unconditionally respect the
> > config protection area, and it should be up to tools like
> > etc-update to (configurably) automerge new files and identical
> > files, just like it can be configured to automerge
> > trivial/comment changes.
>
> I disagree.  If there is a sane default configuration for
> something (which is most things), I want it installed, so it
> works out of the box. I don't want to have to fiddle with config
> files to get sshd up and running.

There's no need to fiddle: it will run out of the box right after 
running etc-update.  That is, when this tool is extended to deal 
with new files and configured to automerge them.

Benno
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