"Thomas Gebhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > the configuration files of all debian packages are located in /etc. > That's really fine. > > But the package manager stores its configuration (access method, > list of selected packages, ...) somewhere in /var/lib/dpkg. Why?
Steve Dunham wrote: > Configuration goes in /etc, state goes in /var. But the access method is not a state, it's a configuration. One could also argue that the list of selected packages is also a configuration since it results directly from user _selection_ (almost a synonym for configuration).