2015-11-11 1:03 GMT+01:00 Vincent Danjean <vdanjean...@free.fr>: > Hi, > > Le 10/11/2015 14:49, Andrew Shadura a écrit : >> I think you can try to do it systemd way: keep the default configuration >> in /usr/lib, and leave /etc for local user configuration which overrides >> the default config. >> >> Not sure how good is this idea, I hope others can comment on this. > > For myself, I find this a very bad behavior: > - etckeeper cannot track the evolution of the config files
Can't etckeeper keep track of other directories? (without symlinks?) > - if I 'modify' a file by putting another one in /etc that overrides > the default one in /usr, when the default will change I won't be > notified You have the problem currently with the default set at compilation time. See for example updates in samba. > - when I want to look at the config of the software, I've to "merge" > two files or even two directories (one in /etc and one in /usr) Yes. But this is easier than merging some compiled-in defaults with a config file. I find /etc currently polluted by unnecessary config, and welcome it being smaller.egards Regards
