Interesting! Thank you for your research!After working 20 hours straight - uptime said so - I did not feel like it to do deeper research myself. :)
-Ramon On 26/10/2022 13:31, Rich Freeman wrote:
On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:42 AM Ramon Fischer <[email protected]> wrote:I do not know, what the developers were thinking to encourage the user to edit a default file, which gets potentially overwritten after each package update... "etc-update" helps to have an eye on, but muscle memory and fast fingers are sometimes faster.The Gentoo preference tends to be to follow upstream. So if sudo upstream distributes a file like this that has comments encouraging users to edit it, then that is likely how Gentoo will ship it. If sudo switched to moving everything into an include-based system UPSTREAM then Gentoo would probably start shipping that. If you look at the sudo ebuild you'll see that the config files are 100% upstream. If you look at things like systemd units or udev rules they're much more include-oriented, as this is the upstream preference. Gentoo has emphasized using config file protection early on, and doesn't have any official preference for using included config directories distro-wide. Portage has been moving in this direction for a while though (for the stuff in /etc/portage).
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