On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:25 +0900, Akira TAGOH wrote: > >>>>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:26:05 -0700, > >>>>> "TK" == Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > TK> If the font is removed, then the config file has to be updated. But the > TK> thing is that the user intiates all of these actions. We don't remove > TK> the package from the user's system. The user has to decide : > > Well, as you may know, fonts-japanese collects various Japanese > fonts and I presume that the font file is removed from the > package without adding/removing any packages. and it also > provides configuration files for ghostscript to be able to > print japanese text out correctly, which we are talking > about now. > Ah I missed that fonts-japanese is a collection of fonts. > TK> If the user doesn't change the config file and the next package > TK> iteration has a different configuration in the file, the file will be > TK> replaced despite it being %config(noreplace). %config() macros only > TK> kick in when the file has been modified on the installed system. > > Right. I'm worrying about they may add another line to it or > modify it partially etc, which is still referring to the old > fonts. > This is no different than upgrading between versions of a program where the config file format has changed in incompatible ways. What do we do then? > Another idea to solve this is, to makes it read-only file > and to create the empty configuration file for users, which > can overrides the sytem's. Sure. It sounds like it's really a per user setting preference anyway. Note that I'd either mark the system wide file %config(noreplace) if it continues to live in /etc or put it in /usr somewhere. -Toshio
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