Re: RFC: OpenRC as Init System for Debian
Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no> writes:
> ]] Uoti Urpala
>
> Hi,
>
>> Wrong: as mentioned in this thread before, one of the advantages of the
>> etc-overrides-lib model is the option of having a file in /etc that
>> first includes the one in /lib, then overrides just one particular
>> value. This allows handling more updates without needing manual changes,
>> as you can automatically pick up other updated values while keeping the
>> override, without needing to do 3-way merges.
>
> This doesn't always work, though. For instance, for systemd, you'd have
> no way to get rid of an ExecStartPre line, since you can have multiple
> of them. It's probably not that common, but it's a use case I want to
> support.
In that case, the including file can be changed (by the admin) to be a
separate file, that does not include, and get the usual conffile
conflict dpkg prompt.
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