[augeas-devel] Avoiding wheel reinvention with dpkg.cfg, and setting empty things.

[Robin Lee Powell]

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:26:15PM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 02:12 -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 31, 2008 at 11:32:41AM +0100, Raphaël Pinson wrote:
> > > Thank you for this nice lens. I see you've been putting quite
> > > a lot of info in comments in there. 
> > 
> > Ironically, I'm not using it myself at all anymore; I ended up
> > having to use another solution.
> 
> I am curious as to why .. mostly to see if there are missing
> features that caused you to use the other solution.

Oh, no, not at all.  It turned out that the issue I was having was
with aptitude rather than dpkg, that's all.

I'm extremely happy with Augeas; I've been thinking for years now
that there has to be a better way to manage config files, because
every time Debian upgrades something my config files get further and
further behind or I have to spend a bunch of timing fixing them
using diffs.  Augeas seems like The Right Thing(tm), so I'm very
happy to have found it (through puppet, fwiw).

-Robin

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