Steve Langasek <vor...@debian.org> writes: > What *is* an issue is when upstreams decide to ship their defaults in > /usr, but require users to duplicate information between /usr templates > and /etc config files and ignore the contents of /usr in favor of the > contents of /etc. This is also not a violation of FHS, but it IS a > crappy design.
> When software is not able to override configuration *settings* with fine > granularity via /etc, the entire thing should go under /etc. Doing > otherwise makes this horrible for upgrades. Yes, this, with the caveat that coming up with a new tool that would do the right thing, as Tollef discussed, would be a reasonable substitute for putting everything in /etc. -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87sjf6ih8l....@windlord.stanford.edu
