Ansgar ๐, le jeu. 19 dรฉc. 2024 16:21:03 +0100, a ecrit: > On Thu, 2024-12-19 at 11:16 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > Also, /etc would thus be full of empty /etc/$proj directories? I don't > > see the point of not just putting the example files there? Why making it > > more difficult for the admin to configure their server? > > Examples belong to /usr/share/doc though?
Which is where I would look as second place indeed, but not /usr/lib/$package (at best /usr/share/$package) > 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. Yes, but the thing is: I *do* want to see that message, to make sure what changed upstream and fix my manual configuration accordingly. > That was so annoying that Debian started having configuration files for > configuring other configuration files, e.g., /etc/default/* to > configure /etc/init.d/*. Or can be put in .d/ directories. But then if e.g. an option disappears, things just break without getting any warning ahead. Samuel
