Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbys...@in.waw.pl> writes: > There is a long-term goal of moving packaged files out of /etc,
I will note that I'm opposed to this goal as a goal per-se. If you want an empty directory, "mkdir /etc2" should work for you. I fear this will end like the /tmp fiasco where one /tmp became many tmp directories, and no consistent rule about which one to use. > so that only actual local configuration remains in /etc. This can be achieved without "empty /etc" as a goal. For example, why can't we use podman's overlay filesystem to mount /usr/etc under /etc so that all the configuration appears in /etc but installed vs changed files are kept segregatable? > For example, /etc/services is a list of port:service mappings, and people > maybe used to edit that twenty years ago, I still edit this one. > The same is also true for /etc/bash_completion.d/ I delete this package completely, so I don't care where its config goes. > Another common case is "empty" configuration files, i.e. templates > that show the default configuration. I find these VERY helpful when trying to fix configuration issues on my machines. > Other distributions are ahead of us in supporting empty /etc. "Be like everyone else" is not one of our goals. > If you are a maintainer of a package with files in /etc, please consider > whether they are strictly necessary, and if possible, move stuff to /usr. Unless such file could be changed by a user, in which case it belongs in /etc. > At some point, I think we should make this an explicit goal in Fedora. Please don't. -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
