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No, Debian always asks before overwriting anything in /etc and provides convenient options like showing a diff during the process.
by goodpoint 5y ago
No, Debian always asks before overwriting anything in /etc and provides convenient options like showing a diff during the process.
- iso1210 5y agoOnly if you've changed from the default config file, and it's not anything in /etc, it's anything specified in the conffiles file in the .deb, which I believe should include things in /etc according to policy, but can include others (and doesn't have to include things in /etc if you ignore policy) And of course you can do anything you want in a postinst script (again setting aside policy)
- goodpoint 5y ago"setting aside policy" any software can do rm -rf / The whole point of Linux distributions is having policies to protect the end user and enforcing them.