On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Seblu <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?)
I'm all for it if we have users (packages). I.e. if there are packages that could use this, I'd be happy to merge a patch. A candidate would be any package that instructs the user to add something to sysctl.conf. I have not seen this, but maybe it exists. If we start shipping files in /usr/lib/sysctl.d/, then the counerpart in /etc makes sense for user files and as an override mechanism. However, if there are no shipped files, then the user might as well keep all the config in /etc/sysctl.conf. -t
