On Wed, Jun 12, Mats Wichmann wrote: > On 6/12/19 3:16 AM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote: > > > > Hello, > > > > over 5 years ago, there was a discussion about OSTree and /usr/etc. > > (https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/fhs-discuss/2014-March/000440.html) > > Unfortunatley, this did not lead to an agreement, instead hiding this > > below /usr/lib or /usr/share was suggested. > > > > During the years, the problem didn't go away or solved themself > > Hi Thorsten! Certainly agree with the level of irritation with current > directions, more and more I can't find some config by the "old ways" of > grepping in /etc, and the files are in /usr/lib/something (systemd a > simple example). Is it perhaps the case that such text-based searches > aren't really expected to be useful any longer (i.e.: "use the tool to > query")? Except that then you need to be aware of dozens of tools...
Talking with many people on conferences about this, the feedback was pretty clear: people still prefer to use grep to find the right configuration file and not to remember many tools, especially if they don't exactly know which tool is responsible for that today. Clear wish was really, move all the stuff together in one directory again. And this was from standard Linux users, not ones using atomic updates. Thorsten -- Thorsten Kukuk, Distinguished Engineer, Senior Architect SLES & MicroOS SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Felix Imendoerffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah, HRB 21284 (AG Nuernberg) _______________________________________________ fhs-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/fhs-discuss
