Le mercredi, 15 juin 2011 22.33:29, Josua Dietze a écrit : > Am 14.06.2011 12:06, schrieb Didier Raboud: > > Thanks for your time and skills ! > > Just want to let you know that I'm on the job now and following this > exchange.
Hi Josua, nice to see you ring in ! > Originally, the packed config file was not intended for default use on > desktop systems. It kind of amazed me to see this happening on today's > resource-loaded devices. Eh, disk space being cheap doesn't mean we can waste it for free. :-) > Well, now we have it and it makes sense to consider a mix of packed and > unpacked configurations, particularly when adding new device data or > changing existing entries. I don't like the folder splitting though; the > unpacked/edited files should be close to the other configurations. Why not > use the > "/usr/share/usb_modeswitch" folder, alongside the package? While I understand your feelings, unfortunately, the [FHS] forbids this: /usr/share is for "read-only architecture-independent shared user data", while /etc is for "host-specific system-wide configuration files". I think configuration files overrides fall in the second category. > I propose to drop the check for the old config folder > (/etc/usb_modeswitch.d) in the upcoming wrapper version altogether. No no no. :-> > Also, I think we can agree that in the now possible case of duplicate > configurations (one unpacked, one packed) the unpacked file should have the > higher priority. Sure; that sounds logical. > What do you think? The most important thing IMHO is to limit the use of overrides to the minimum: working configurations should be merged to the tarball, to benefit the FLOSS community at large. Cheers, OdyX [FHS] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
