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Re: from / to /usr/: a summary



Thomas Goirand <thomas@goirand.fr> writes:
> On 01/01/2012 01:49 AM, brian m. carlson wrote:

>> So the only sane thing to do is not change the default, ever.

> The other sane way is to mark files not in /etc as conffiles.  It
> semantically sux a bit, but if we have no choice because of upstream
> decisions (which we don't have enough time to fix), then that might be a
> way...

That doesn't help unless you expect sysadmins to change them (unchanged
conffiles are quietly updated just like any other package file), at which
point it becomes an FHS violation.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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