Am Do, den 15.07.2004 schrieb Sebastian Henschel um 14:45: > howdy folks... > > in the last couple of months, i realized that more and more packages > are using a file in /etc/default/ for the configuration of their > init-scripts. > i searched in debian-devel and debian-mentors, looked into the policy > 10.7 and asked a maintainer of such a package, but did not find any > rationale, discussion or something which explains this. > > can any one of you please help me here? would it be smart to move my > package's configuration into /etc/default as well? will it be part of > the policy some day? why is it called default? From my point of view, the config files in /etc/default should only provide default configurations, that are/can be overridden in another file in /etc . Like, when a configuration /etc/default/XXX.cnf has 100 configuration option predefined, from which only some of them may be overridden in /etc/XXX.cnf. I see, that this is not used by any of the files in /etc/default/ so my assumption is probably completely wrong, but I think that this would be a reasonable approach. Cheers, Roman
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