On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 12:56 PM, Peter Lemenkov <lemen...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2012/8/3 Lennart Poettering <mzerq...@0pointer.de>: >> On Wed, 01.08.12 15:28, Tom Callaway (tcall...@redhat.com) wrote: >> >>> A new section on Macros has been added to the Packaging Guidelines, >>> covering Packaging of Additional RPM Macros. >>> >>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#Packaging_of_Additional_RPM_Macros >> >> What's the rationale behind having these in /etc? This is hardly user >> configuration, and only ever used if people build their own RPMs. We >> really should try harder not to clutter /etc with stuff that is not >> configuration. >> >> Why not have this somewhere below /usr? > > Agree. We should install them into /usr/lib/rpm.
Exactly. Static stuff installed by packages should not land in /etc. It's a pain on updates when it's marked as config, and stuff goes wrong all the time, because things in /etc invite everybody to edit it, and boom. We really should try hard to leave /etc to the admin, and not the OS vendor. And just in case that this will come up: all the bad prior art in /etc should not be a reason to continue that road, it's not the right way, and we can do better, and need to do better. :) Thanks, Kay -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
