On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 12:01 +0100, Ansgar 🙀 wrote: > With empty-/etc, you would (ideally) only have explicit local > configuration in /etc which makes it much, much easier to see what the > local admin changed to diagnose problems, prepare upgrades and so on. > This is practically impossible now.
It would obviously be ideal for stateless systems as well: http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/stateless.html Which is radically different from what Debian (a traditional stateful system) is today, but keeping /etc clean and tidy would still have some benefits.
