Re: init system policy

[Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Philip Hands writes ("Re: init system policy"):
> Would it perhaps make sense to have etckeeper additionally keep track of
> files in /lib directories for packages that have this /etc overrides
> /lib scheme?  Such packages could add their config-outside-etc
> directories to a list somewhere, perhaps, which packages like etckeeper
> could then pick up on.

I don't know how much etckeeper users use modifying (rather than
recording) git operations, but I can imagine that this approach might
easily result in etckeeper's git fighting with dpkg.

Ian.