On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 03:11:02PM -0400, Steve Shockley wrote: > MikeyG wrote: > > Just a thought. For packages with sensitive system configs wouldn't it > > be useful if the install automatically patched /etc/changelist. Also it > > might help if they modified /etc/mtree/special too, although this is > > probably more difficult to get right.
> Packages shouldn't modify system configs like that, at most the package > installer should inform the user to do so, or provide a script the user > can run to do so. Well, we've quietly done it for shells, and I haven't seen anyone complaining yet... We also hack at whatis.db, and we quietly run ldconfig. Gee, is that bad ?
