Re: Putting default config files in /usr [was; (newbie) Disruptive LIRC package update.]
Marc Haber <mh+debian-devel@zugschlus.de> wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 2015 21:58:13 +0100, Jean-Christophe Dubacq <jcdubacq1@free.fr> wrote:
>[ ? 11/11/2015 18:14 ] [ ? Marc Haber ]
>> Once and for all we're doing _SOMETHING_ right, let's keep it that
>> way.
>I do not agree that we are doing something exactly right. I would like
>/etc to only contain what I changed (as a sysadmin), and nothing else ;
That is not what an experienced Unix Admin would expect. We should not
do that.
As an experienced Unix admin, I hate having to comb through megabytes of
useless files in /etc to look for what has been actually changed on the
system.
The very fact that people need to use specific tools such as etckeeper,
just to be able to see what has been configured, shows that we are doing
something wrong, not the other way round.
When we moved away whole megabytes of default GConf configuration
from /etc to /usr and /var, only keeping in /etc the actual changes made
to the default configuration, I don’t recall much complaining.
Eventually upstream ended up re-using our scheme when they wrote
GSettings.
--
Joss
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