On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 12:17 AM, Tom Gundersen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Dave Reisner <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Earendil wrote: >>> I have also added the capability to stip th sysctl.conf files in many >>> files in the sysctl.d directory. >>> This idea was inspired by Debian architecture. >> >> Sure, systemd uses this as well. Do we have any cases where distributing >> a sysctl file with a package is needed? I'm really not sure this is >> something that's wanted/needed in Arch. > > I agree with Dave, if we are going to support this there should be at > least one user of it. Are there any packages that either already ship > with their own sysctl file, or that would benefit from doing it? As /etc/udev/rules.d, sysctl.d can be reserved for users.
It's a very pratical way of setting system config. Make it a default, is a good advice for users. It will maybe also help packager which want add some systcl param. (chicken or the egg?) > > If we are going to support a sysctl.d directory, I think we should do > it in exactly the same way as systemd does (being almost, but not > quite, the same would only be confusing): > <http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/sysctl.d.html>. I read quickly, but Debian do the sames -- Sébastien Luttringer www.seblu.net
