On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 09:00:09PM +0100, Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx (Axel Thimm) writes:
>
> >> > While reviewing some fonts-* packages , I saw files being installed
> >> >under /usr are marked as %config in their SPECS as shown below
> >> >%config(noreplace) %verify(not md5 size mtime) %{ttfontdir}/fonts.alias
> >> ...
> >> IMO, the fonts.alias example is a fair use of %config that's ok in my book.
> >
> > But we do want /usr to be "stateless".
>
> afaik, 'fonts.alias' has nothing todo with stateless or non-stateless. This
> file won't be touched by any system program (in opposite to fonts.dir and
> fonts.scale) but might be used to configure preferences for certain fonts
> (e.g. 'fixed' or 'cursor').
Which is really hard to do on a real-only filesystem.
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