Re: from / to /usr/: a summary
Stephan Seitz wrote:
> Every package which will accept a configuration file in /etc should ship
> such a file in /etc, even if it contains only comments. In this way, you
> know the name(s) of the configuration file(s) and the subdirectory in
> /etc where they belong.
A de-facto standard has already emerged for how to ship the standard
configuration in /usr/lib and handle overrides, which makes it quite
straightforward to find configuration files in a package, add new
configuration files, or override the standard configuration files:
packages read /etc/$dir before /usr/lib/$dir, and /etc/$dir/$foo.conf
overrides /usr/lib/$dir/$foo.conf. If you want to override
/usr/lib/$dir/$foo.conf, copy it to /etc/$dir/$foo.conf and start
editing.
- Josh Triplett
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