On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:22 PM, Wouter Verhelst <wou...@debian.org> wrote: > 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.
If Debian decides to drop into "/etc" files that are dropped into "/usr/lib" (or "/lib") upstream because rpm and others can't handle config file upgrades, it would be a decision not based on facts.
