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Martin Owens wrote on 13/09/08 04:18:
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One of the concerns I have is with configurations, specifically those
in /etc and those in ~/.* . The files in /etc are known to the apt
system and it's been built to warn the user if config files are to
I like the idea of a FUSE interface to GConf, and I could see extending
the idea to some sort of configFS - I seem to remember the ReiserFS guys
talking about a similar idea years ago, before recent events overtook
them. I think an interface that involves opening
Dear Ubuntu and APT Developers,
I would like to introduce an idea and see if any of you would like to
review it and see how helpful it would be to solving a problem. These
ideas may have already have been expressed so I'd like to see if they
are under development elsewhere.
In Debian based
Could you spell out some specific issues that this would solve? For
example, are you looking to avoid two packages overwriting each other's
files in ~/? If so, can you give an example of that happening?
- Andrew
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2008/9/12 Andrew Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Could you spell out some specific issues that this would solve? For
example, are you looking to avoid two packages overwriting each other's
files in ~/? If so, can you give an example of that happening?
Examples:
1) I manually edit a config file
I think we've all had that idea at one time or another, but sadly it's
based on a misunderstanding of how the community works.
Steve Jobs stood atop the mountain and commanded that Mac developers
jump to plists, and everyone jumped because that's how Apple development
works. If Mark Shuttleworth
I think we've all had that idea at one time or another, but sadly it's
based on a misunderstanding of how the community works.
Oh no, I understand that people will be people. I don't expect them to
agree. But building systems to validate system integrity doesn't
require projects approval
On Fri, 2008-09-12 at 23:18 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
One of the concerns I have is with configurations, specifically those
in /etc and those in ~/.* . The files in /etc are known to the apt
system and it's been built to warn the user if config files are to be
overwritten. The config files
