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Re: Directory structure suggestion for configuration in /etc



On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:01 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote:
> With empty-/etc, you would (ideally) only have explicit local
> configuration in /etc which makes it much, much easier to see what the
> local admin changed to diagnose problems, prepare upgrades and so on.
> This is practically impossible now.

It would obviously be ideal for stateless systems as well: 
http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html

Which is radically different from what Debian (a traditional stateful
system) is today, but keeping /etc clean and tidy would still have some
benefits.


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