Re: policy for shipping sysctl.d snippets in packages?

[Tom H <tomh0665@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 03:48:09PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst <wouter@debian.org> wrote:
>>>
>>> I didn't say RPM *doesn't* deal with changed files; I said ours
>>> deals with it better. I stand by that.
>>
>> Sure; and an rpm or emerge user'll tell you that dpkg is inferior
>> because an interactive upgrade's a crazy thing to do.
>
> Yes, sure. This discussion is getting increasingly side-tracked though.
>
> The original question was "should I install defaults in /etc or /usr?"
> to which I replied that in Debian, we've traditionally done the former
> rather than the latter, and that the latter feels like a result of an
> ecosystem (other than ours) where dealing with conflicting changes to
> configuration files is frowned upon. I think our way is better, but
> I'm sure others disagree.

If Debian decides to drop into "/etc" files that are dropped into
"/usr/lib" (or "/lib") upstream because rpm and others can't handle
config file upgrades, it would be a decision not based on facts.