On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 02:22:26PM +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On 2012-10-03 14:05, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > It's not a question of fair or not fair. The policy is what it is for good > > reasons. It does not say that external packages are not allowed to change > > configuration, but that they have to do so via a program provided by the > > package. This gives a defined interface and reduces the risk of incorrect > > changes. I think this makes a lot of sense. > > I agree, but the problem is that most programs don't have this. If you are > lucky, a program supports "change the configuration files and SIGHUP the > daemon". Why doesn't Debian policy require them have this interface? In the > absence of that requirement, the onus is on the webmin team to do their > work for them.
How does ebox/zentyal deal with this? Neal McBurnett http://neal.mcburnett.org/ -- ubuntu-server mailing list ubuntu-server@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server More info: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
