On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:31:08PM -0600, William Hubbs wrote: > On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 09:47:05PM -0500, Wyatt Epp wrote: > > But let's be real here: if I install something and > > want to configure its system-wide bits, the first place I go is ALWAYS > > /etc. When I don't find it there, with the rest of the system config > > files, my day gets a little worse and I lose a bit of time trying to > > interrogate a search engine for the answer. And that's annoying. > > That sucks. > > This hasn't changed. > The configuration files these packages are putting in /lib are not > meant to be edited; they are the package provided defaults. If you want > to override one of them, you do that in a file with the same path and > name in /etc, like I mentioned in another message in this thread.
The problem, as has been explained many many times, is that the rest of the config is somewhere random on the system. But you knew that, right? You were just telling a half-truth, effectively. I for one prefer a distro to do a bit of work and make my life easier, since it makes life easier for everyone who uses the distro. Why the hell should I care if some bindist can't etc-update? WTF does that have to do with Gentoo? If I wanted a shitty distro that didn't bother to do anything at all, I'd use LFS. At least they don't pretend, then fall over themselves to do a crap load of work rather than admit a mistake; that hey, y'know what? Some of those things from 30 years ago were a damn good idea, and maybe just maybe, they worked some of these issues out back then, so we could stand on their shoulders instead of digging through their garbage. -- #friendly-coders -- We're friendly, but we're not /that/ friendly ;-)
