On 2020-02-18 02:56:07 +0100, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > I strongly disagree that this should be in /usr, as it's configuration. > > The fashion of recent years to place configuration in /usr is IMHO > quite questionable: > > /usr is generally nothing that people are expected to monitor so if the > distro decides to change a previous (distro-)default it will be > unnoticed by users (in contrast to /etc).
I agree with you, possibly except if 1. Configuration placed under /usr is considered hard-coded defaults, thus needs to be documented as such. 2. User-visible changes are announced. > This can have quite bad effects if the users depends on such (previous) > defaults. > > > I think having defaults stored in /usr is kinda "ok" if these are > upstream defaults (an upstream could also just change defaults in the > sources without the enduser noticing it).. but I think distros > shouldn't do so - especially if the changes don't match the default > upstream behaviour. Isn't this a bit special for sysctl? Debian has its own defaults for its kernels and the user can also build kernels with other defaults (in which case configuration from /usr can be confusing if not clearly documented). -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon)
