  Re: /etc/mailname  >>"Jamie" == Jamie Wilkinson
<jaq@debian.org> writes:   Jamie> libpaperg does something
similar[1], sure I feel it would be  Jamie> worthwhile creating
a mailname package that owns  Jamie> /etc/mailname, thus
packages have something to depend on.          I would object to
that. Why create useless dependencies and  empty packages? And
how would it being a conffile help people who  remove conffiles?
Indeed, the way it is, it is better than a conffile, since
packages can try and recreate it.  A removed conffile shall neer
be  recreated automatically (dpkg honours user intentions).
Secondly, if  it were a conffile, other packages can't modify or
create a missinf  mailnames file.   Phaedrus wishes he could get
a machine that consists of Sparc IO,  Alpha Processors and sleek
design of an SGI <pp> And intel prices  Seen on #Linux  To
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