Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc
Hi,
On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Also, /etc would thus be full of empty /etc/$proj directories? I don't
> see the point of not just putting the example files there? Why making it
> more difficult for the admin to configure their server?
Examples belong to /usr/share/doc though?
And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to
have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with
"the example configuration has changed; what do you want to do"
messages.
That was so annoying that Debian started having configuration files for
configuring other configuration files, e.g., /etc/default/* to
configure /etc/init.d/*.
(Yes, I know that non-default configuration for dpkg can make it more
helpful.)
Removing packages also means that random stuff gets left over in /etc
which can break other software (and does!).
(Yes, I know that users are expected to purge packages and not only
remove them to prevent that, but many users do not.)
Ansgar
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