hey mentors, i have a hypothetical situation for you. let's say i were working on a package for sugarplum. now this package is understandably the bane of most spam harvesters out there, enough that they've probably put in a rule to avoid directories named /sugarplum on most peoples web servers. the way you get around this is to rename the /sugarplum directory to some other innocuous word. now what i'd like to do is to randomly select a word from either /usr/share/dict/words or from the user via debconf. the trouble with the former is that i don't think i can guarantee that words is installed at configure time, and the latter brings in some questions i don't know the answers to. currently, there's a file /etc/sugarplum/apache.conf that has the rewrite rules, including the location of /sugarplum. if i were to do one of the above suggestions, what's the best way to handle this file? would it still be as a conffile, even though every time the package were upgraded it would invoke the conffile handling stuff? i've heard a bit about loading configuration files from templates via debconf, but haven't ever done so myself. would that be an acceptable way to do so? and if so, anyone have an example i can use as reference? as always, thanks sean
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