Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Matt Armstrong
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:46:52PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > > Who needs to edit it, the sysadmin or the maintainer scripts? > >> - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of >> future options. > > There are other

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Matt Armstrong
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:46:52PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > > Who needs to edit it, the sysadmin or the maintainer scripts? > >> - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of >> future options. > > There are othe

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:46:52PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > I'm packaging my own program (http://www.lickey.com/flipit/) and have a > question about configuration files. > > So I'm left in a situation where: > > - Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a >

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:46:52PM -0600, Matt Armstrong wrote: > I'm packaging my own program (http://www.lickey.com/flipit/) and have a > question about configuration files. > > So I'm left in a situation where: > > - Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a >

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: > - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of > future options. I don't follow this point. The user will only be informed that the conffile has changed if they have modified it in some way and you change the conffile that's distributed with

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: > OK. So you install a file and then customise it to the user. IMHO > customising the file on first install does not count as "editing a conf file" > as you are just changing what the user will see as the default config. In your opinion mabe, but not according to policy. A

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:46, Matt Armstrong wrote: > - Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a > conffile. > - The program won't work if /etc/flipit.conf isn't edited. > - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of > future op

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Matt Armstrong wrote: > - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of > future options. I don't follow this point. The user will only be informed that the conffile has changed if they have modified it in some way and you change the conffile that's distributed with

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: > OK. So you install a file and then customise it to the user. IMHO > customising the file on first install does not count as "editing a conf file" > as you are just changing what the user will see as the default config. In your opinion mabe, but not according to policy.

Re: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Oct 2001 06:46, Matt Armstrong wrote: > - Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a > conffile. > - The program won't work if /etc/flipit.conf isn't edited. > - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of > future o

RE: to conffile or not to conffile

2001-10-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
> > So I'm left in a situation where: > > - Policy forbids me from editing the /etc/flipit.conf if I mark it a > conffile. > - The program won't work if /etc/flipit.conf isn't edited. > - I really do want to make it a conffile, so the user is notified of > future options.