On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 03:48:09PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote:
> > I didn't say RPM *doesn't* deal with changed files; I said ours deals
> > with it better. I stand by that.
>
> Sure; and an rpm or emerge user'll tell you that dpkg is inferior
> because an interactive upgrade's a crazy thing to do.
Yes, sure. This discussion is getting increasingly side-tracked though.
The original question was "should I install defaults in /etc or /usr?"
to which I replied that in Debian, we've traditionally done the former
rather than the latter, and that the latter feels like a result of an
ecosystem (other than ours) where dealing with conflicting changes to
configuration files is frowned upon. I think our way is better, but I'm
sure others disagree.
Regardless, traditionally we've been doing it "our" way, and therefore
it seems reasonable to believe that our users will expect things to
continue working "our" way. Whether that is better than the "other" way
is besides the point that I was trying to make (even if I believe that
to be true).
--
< ron> I mean, the main *practical* problem with C++, is there's like a dozen
people in the world who think they really understand all of its rules,
and pretty much all of them are just lying to themselves too.
-- #debian-devel, OFTC, 2016-02-12
