On 10/05/2012 19:34, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On May 10, Bjørn Mork <bj...@mork.no> wrote: > >> Agree. Copying a large set of default policies into /etc just because >> they *can* be overridden is not user friendly. And it does not make the >> defaults any more configuration either. It just hides important local >> changes and makes it difficult both for the user and the application >> itself to distinguish between defaults and configuration overrides. > Wrong: since you have to copy the whole file to override it, and files > in /lib have no conffiles handling, after an upgrade you will not know > what was changed by you and what was changed upstream. > Obviously this is not a problem for Red Hat since they do not support > upgrades between major releases. > There are cases where file in /etc overrides only the directives present in /etc and not the rest. I prefer this way.
-- Jean-Christophe Dubacq
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