Hi, On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Also, /etc would thus be full of empty /etc/$proj directories? I don't > see the point of not just putting the example files there? Why making it > more difficult for the admin to configure their server?
Examples belong to /usr/share/doc though? And it is actively harmful as if one edits the example configuration to have a useful configuration as dpkg will start annoying admins with "the example configuration has changed; what do you want to do" messages. That was so annoying that Debian started having configuration files for configuring other configuration files, e.g., /etc/default/* to configure /etc/init.d/*. (Yes, I know that non-default configuration for dpkg can make it more helpful.) Removing packages also means that random stuff gets left over in /etc which can break other software (and does!). (Yes, I know that users are expected to purge packages and not only remove them to prevent that, but many users do not.) Ansgar
