On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:25:52AM -0500, Marc Auslander wrote: > IIRC in the "old" world, if you had a modified version of a config > file and an update modified the original released version, you got > a warning and a dialog which let you decide how to proceed.
This is still the case on Debian systems: it's the "conffile" feature of Debian packages. Unfortunately systemd was designed in part around limitations of other systems' package managers, such as RPM, which lack this feature. So they invented the /etc/systemd/system-overrides-/lib/systemd/system override scheme instead. The techniques that others in this thread have mentioned for partially overriding or supplanting an existing system file go some way to redress this. -- Jonathan Dowland Please do not CC me, I am subscribed to the list.
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