On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:51:47PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: > Am 29.12.20 um 08:29 schrieb Josh Triplett: > > The systemd family of packages has generally tried to minimize the > > number of files in /etc, in favor of files in /usr. > > > > /etc/udev/udev.conf contains nothing but comments. Please consider > > dropping it (when unmodified). > > This is true for all config files shipped by both udev and systemd (i.e. all > files matching /etc/systemd/*.conf). All of them only contain comments (i.e. > commented out default values). > It feels a bit odd, to special-case udev here.
That's entirely fair. I reported it on udev because I was working with udev at the time. > I have to add, that those files are provided by upstream. > I would feel more easy if this was discussed upstream. I don't really want > to deviate downstream here. Of course. It looks like those files are installed upstream by the install-sysconfdir option, which also controls the installation of empty .d directories and similar, and I think we want to keep the latter. I've filed https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18112 about the possibility of splitting that option.