[CLUE-Tech] Strange file changes

[Kurt Sturm]

On Mon, 2002-06-10 at 08:05, David Anselmi wrote:
> 
> 
> It would be nice to have some documentation on the automatic
> 'maintenance' that Mandrake seems to do.  Anyone have any links?  Mike
> B, maybe there's something in the box you got.
> 
> You can try poking around a little and see if there is an approved place
> for user specific settings that won't get undone.  That's more art than
> science though.
> 
> Part of the issue is that the config files you might want to edit are
> installed by the package manager and may be overwritten by other
> packages.  Debian seems to handle this well--points out that you changed
> your config and asks which version to use.  And it lets you see a diff
> so you know what to expect.
> 
> I have Mandrake installed right now, but I was planning on trying Debian
> instead--I use that for servers and I should see how the desktop stuff
> works.
> 
> Dave

Let me know how that goes please. I have been fiddling around with this
off and on over the past week and I am still coming up empty handed. I
put up a post on the Mandrake user board and no one seems to know there
either. However I am determined to get to the bottom of it and once
solved I will let everyone know.
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