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Re: Directory /boot/console-setup



]] Steve Langasek 

> My complaint is that this is excessively ugly.  For persistent variable data
> that needs to be available during early boot, even when this is binary data
> that the user won't edit, /etc is the normal place to keep it - it's the
> creation of a a .cache subdirectory that I object to.

Very strongly agreed, if we could outright ban using dot directories in
packages for anything packaged (except dotfiles in people's ~, which
should generally not be something that the packaging cares about), I
think that would be a good idea.

-- 
Tollef Fog Heen
UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are


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