On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 7:47 PM, William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > Patrick thinks that all configuration files belong in /etc, and what has > > happened is, some packages are placing default configuration > > files in /lib or /usr/lib and allowing them to be overridden by files > > with the exact same names and paths in /etc. His argument is that only > > libraries belong in /lib or /usr/lib. > > > I didn't get that vibe from what was quoted in OP. Maybe there's > something missing. But let's be real here: if I install something and > want to configure its system-wide bits, the first place I go is ALWAYS > /etc. When I don't find it there, with the rest of the system config > files, my day gets a little worse and I lose a bit of time trying to > interrogate a search engine for the answer. And that's annoying. > That sucks.
This hasn't changed. The configuration files these packages are putting in /lib are not meant to be edited; they are the package provided defaults. If you want to override one of them, you do that in a file with the same path and name in /etc, like I mentioned in another message in this thread. William
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