Ansgar 🙀, le ven. 20 déc. 2024 12:01:24 +0100, a ecrit: > On Fri, 2024-12-20 at 11:50 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > What I completely fail to understand is why people would want to not > > see any file in /etc. What harm does it *actually* cause? > > It makes it hard to see what was actually configured: there is random > configuration bits, possibly from a random older version of the > package, intermixed with local configuration. > > 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.
ucf should be able to provide this? Put another way: it's not the presence of files in /etc that poses problem. It's not having the shipped version at hand for comparing it. Let's fix that rather than dropping something which is useful to admins. > It also avoids the problem of removed-but-not-purged packages. With files copied into /etc, you will still have configuration files lying around, and *not tracked*. Samuel
