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On 02/03/14 19:51, William Hubbs wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 02, 2014 at 05:49:59PM +0100, Peter Stuge wrote: |
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>> Gilles Dartiguelongue wrote: |
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>>> Sure at some point you have to make things evolve but this upstream |
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>>> solution simply isn't nice for its users. |
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>> That may be, but I don't think it's a distribution's responsibility |
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>> to try to own that problem. |
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> This is my point exactly. Patrick's proposal is that we make this policy |
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> that all config files belong in /etc a distro policy, including |
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> patching upstream software to force it to conform. If we make this a |
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> distro policy and upstream rejects it, there will always be a lot of |
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> work downstream that is imo unnecessary. |
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> William |
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Right, the only relavent fact here is that /usr and likeminded |
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directories like /lib can be mounted RO and everything will |
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still work. |
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Likewise anything in /usr, /lib, /bin, /sbin, and co. should be |
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for static files, such as for configuration templates which |
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remain modified only by the package manager. |
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And the udev rules don't violate any of that, which makes |
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it perfectly working design, which makes the whole usage |
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of such configuration setup by upstreams so common. |
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So the proposal that every config should go to /etc must |
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be somekind of joke. No offense to anyone ;) |
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- Samuli |
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