[maemo-developers] Subtle difference in behavior of installation packages

[From: John Pietrzak]

On 2/9/12 6:30 PM, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:38:53 -0500, John Pietrzak wrote:
>> BTW, what is Debian's purpose on keeping conffiles around?  Is there
>> value in having config info for nonexisting packages?  (Should I not
>> be worried about leaving sudoers files in the sudoers.d directory?)
> A package might be removed only temporarily or in error, and be
> reinstalled again later. In that case the admin will be happy to find
> their carefully tweaked config files instead of having to re-create
> them from scratch (or grab them from a backup or an older git
> revision).
> And in general conffiles lying around in /etc/ don't hurt.
>

Ah, I guess that makes sense.

Thanks!

--John