On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 05:25:57PM +0800, Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 05/11/2012 05:07 PM, Gergely Nagy wrote: > > I'll turn this around: how do you handle cases where the defaults of > > packages like apt, exim or syslogd change? Where the defaults are > > embedded in the executable. > > > The thing is, if you put the default in a file, it's because you > expect these to change, at least more often than things that > are compiled-in. Otherwise, what's the point in having stuff > stored in a file that can be edited? Why not just do a .h with > the values you need? > > P.S: I'm continuing to ask, even though you guys are slowly > succeeding in convincing me... :) Not fully though... which > is why I'm continuing this (I believe interesting) discussion.
At this point, I think all the pros and cons of all the various different strategies have been discussed ad nauseam--there's not much of value in continuing this further on this list. It's not adding anything new or useful. Regards, Roger -- .''`. Roger Leigh : :' : Debian GNU/Linux http://people.debian.org/~rleigh/ `. `' schroot and sbuild http://alioth.debian.org/projects/buildd-tools `- GPG Public Key F33D 281D 470A B443 6756 147C 07B3 C8BC 4083 E800 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120512113200.gr23...@codelibre.net