On Sun, Jun 15, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Lennart Poettering <lenn...@poettering.net> wrote: > On Fri, 13.06.14 12:35, Michael Marineau (michael.marin...@coreos.com) wrote: > >> As a side note, regardless of whether an empty /etc is actually viable >> or not the more packages that support gracefully dealing with >> configuration in both /etc and /usr the fewer files there will be in >> /etc that are in the awkward position of being managed by both users >> and packages. rpm and dpkg's behavior of just picking one and backing >> up the other or gentoo's scheme of forcing users to wade through 3-way >> diffs are all pretty terrible. If packages did their best to avoid >> installing files to /etc, giving users exclusive control over that >> space, everyone wins. :) > > BTW: given that there's now at least Colin, Kay, me, and CoreOS working > on getting empty /etc working, can we at least try to agree where the > vendor versions of the files should be? I am kinda voting for > /usr/share/etc, and this is prime bike shedding material, but we should > try to get some consensus there what we are pushing for, especially > regarding prospects to maybe get this into RPM, to always implicitly > place a copy of the config files there...
For CoreOS I've been using /usr/share/<pkg> for most things with the exception of some stuff in /usr/share/baselayout simply because that's the name of the basic filesystem layout package we inherited from Gentoo. Using /usr/share/etc sounds good to me and we can easily switch to that for common shared data/conf files. /usr/share/<pkg> should probably be preferred where possible. So the default sh-compatible copy of /etc/profile may come from /usr/share/etc but the default global bashrc should probably be in /usr/share/bash. That follows the existing pattern of /usr/share so it doesn't become a random choice where default configuration files land. That said I don't really care that much so if it is easier to make /usr/share/etc a strait-up mirror of /etc I'm not going to fuss about it. :) As a side note there is already that /usr/share/misc but perhaps best to leave that alone. _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
