Comment 10 for bug 737948

On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 08:46:48PM -0000, Allison Randal wrote:
> Dustin and I spent a couple hours talking about this yesterday. This is
> the best option we came up with as a short-term fix to make newt's color
> palette configurable, instead of hard-coded into a C function (to avoid
> forking the whole package when the patch to newt is only a few lines).

I'm not objecting to that part of it. My point was more that, at
minimum, the alternative target needs to reside in /etc, not /usr -
otherwise the package effectively violates policy for /etc.