Core packages are using %config for files being installed under /usr

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Thu Mar 1 11:41:01 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 12:33 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:03:24AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> > 
> > Le Mer 28 février 2007 21:00, Enrico Scholz a écrit :
> > 
> > > 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)
> > 
> > Those won't really be touched either. mkfontscale/mkfontdir output is not
> > too reliable, people use "known good & tested" versions of fonts.dir
> > instead of dynamic generation
> 
> Does it perhaps make sense to un%config them?

man mkfontdir
...
 The  file  "fonts.alias",  which  can  be  put in any directory of the
font-path, is used to map new names to existing
       fonts, and should be edited by hand.
...


The fact a file is designed to be a config file hardly can be documented
clearer.

Ralf






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