Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote:
> There seems to be a new fashion to install config files half in some random
> place and the rest in /etc, with precedence in /etc in case of duplication?
> Xorg does the same, with defaults sparsed between /usr/share/X11 and /etc/X11.
There are good reasons for doing it that way - a few packages I use are like
that. It means the packages can ship with large and complete config files in
/usr/share which can be updated when the package is updated. The user/admin
then provides local config in /etc which overrides only those options needed
for the local install. If the package supplied defaults are reasonably sane,
then it means the local config file can be fairly small.
It (mostly) gets round the problem of sticking a big config file in /etc, the
user/admin edits that, and then when the package is upgraded, the user/admin
has to go through all the differences and either miss out on new stuff in the
config file or redo all the localisation by updating the new config file. IMO
that's one of the biggest headaches of upgrades - going through config files
side by side deciding how best to handle it.
I guess it's functionally no different to having a /etc/${package}/config and
/etc/${package}/config.local
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