On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 09:41:37PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Jan 27, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > > > Do I understand you correctly that an empty configuration file in /etc > > will override its 'full' equivalent in /usr? I.e., just an empty file > > full of comments saying "this is what you can do with this file" will > > break some things? > This is correct. > > > If so, are there some things in udev which intrinsically depend on that > > behaviour? > Documentation and consistency with all other distributions.
I wasn't trying to suggest Debian-specific changes. Upstream mistakes (if they are that) should be fixed upstream, not in Debian. > The only alternative solution which I consider acceptable would be to > move everything back to /etc and then symlink the /usr/lib/ directory to > the /etc/ directory. > But I am sure that you can understand why this transition would be hard > and messy for the maintainers of the affected packages at this point in > time. Sure. > BTW, I want to point out that Rusty Russell neatly summarized the points > of the / to /usr argument: http://rusty.ozlabs.org/?p=236 . Yes, though it's a fairly silly representation of the "anti" side. -- The volume of a pizza of thickness a and radius z can be described by the following formula: pi zz a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120129212319.gd4...@grep.be
