[19:39] <antarus> cjwatson: why does debconf store its answers in /var/cache, it is wrong ;p
[19:39] <antarus> /var/lib!
[20:32] <cjwatson> antarus: predates me, but I think the answer is actually that it *is* meant to be a cache and that the bug is that recovery from it being removed isn't as graceful as it should be
[20:48] <antarus> cjwatson: yeah I ended up finding a horrible solution
[20:48] <antarus> involving dpkg-reconfiguring every installed package at critical priority ;p
[20:48] <antarus> (with a non-interactive frontend)
[20:48] <antarus> luckily we don't actually rely on debconf for much post-install ;)
[20:48] <antarus> it wouldn't have helped anyway, users were just copying and pasting crap they read on a forum
[20:48]  * antarus grumbles
[20:52] <ogra_> aret forums great :)
[20:53] <ogra_> *arent
[20:54] <antarus> yeah I yelled passive-aggressively on google+
[20:55]  * antarus would rather they go to helpdesk and get help than run random comands, when they obviously don't know what the commands do
[20:55] <antarus> aside from 'delete files' ;p