Bug#326637: Should /etc/X11/xkb/* be conffiles at all?
Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 04:03:19AM +0100, ROBERTOJIMENOCA@terra.es wrote:
> > Daniel Stone wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 08:28:41PM +0100, J??r??me Warnier wrote:
> > > > I wonder if those files should really be conffiles at all, as it is
> > > > asking for a lot of confirmations to override with new maintainer's
> > > > version from anyone trying to upgrade from one version to another (for
> > > > example Sarge to Etch), while those files have never been modified by
> > > > the user.
> > > >
> > > > If they are not conffiles, they should not be in /etc either
(they take
> > > > 2.4M on my Sarge) by FHS.
> > >
> > > They are conffiles, yes.
> >
> > There's a real need to change the definition of conffiles
> > then.
> > Because having not configuration files like READMEs in /etc is not
> > useful and in fact causes lots of problems.
> >
> > The definition of conffiles I'd like to use would be:
> > A conffile is a file where the user changed anything from system
> > default.
> >
> > With this definition READMEs and keybinding standard data files should
> > be in /usr since the user didn't change them from the default.
>
> READMEs don't belong
there in the most case, except in cases like
> apache2 where you need one to navigate the directory.
>
> Users change keybindings.
>
> Daniel, running with an entirely custom keymap
Sure!!
So you keep the standard keybinding in /usr and your one liners
keybinding modifications in /etc. This way when there's a change in
upstream keybindings you don't even have to merge them manually.
(This will probably need some changes to the X server to source the
upstream keybinding in /usr first and the /etc keybinding
modifications second, but has lots of benefits in the long term)
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