On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, S.C.Best wrote:
> Jeff:
> Sorry you don't agree. What I mean to say was, suppose
> my currently running system has a working /etc/dnscache (for
> example). I'd be ill advised to extract a new dnscache.lrp without
> carefully controlling where it untar's. The defaults would overwrite
> what's my system was using.
> Also, I don't see untar'ing to /tmp a lot of extra work.
> As I recall, lrcfg backs up to /tmp before writing to a floppy, and
> I've never heard it so characterized. But, to each their own.
Seems to me the real problem is in the way the packages use default
configurations. In an ideal world, the following would be true:
1) A package foo does not contain /etc/foo.conf when it gets installed
2) A package foo _does_ contain /etc/foo.conf.default
3) When a package's service is started up, it checks whether /etc/foo.conf
exists and if not copies /etc/foo.conf.default to /etc/foo.conf
That's what I'd call "fixing what is broken". And it's not even hard
either.
Pi
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