'Twas brillig, and Lennart Poettering at 07/01/13 13:37 did gyre and gimble: > On Mon, 07.01.13 11:48, Colin Guthrie (gm...@colin.guthr.ie) wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just thinking outload here as dealing with some packages where stuff in >> /etc was marked in the spec as %config and it really shouldn't be (I'm >> thinking dbus policy files and rootcerts mainly but there are do doubt >> countless other examples where this is true also). >> >> I was thinking, is it a general stated aim that we should be able to >> boot with an empty /etc? I know this isn't true today, but with >> appropriate effort is that where we should be aiming? >> >> I guess the same should be true of /var too probably (i.e. packages >> should be able to cope with initing themselves on first use and not rely >> on doing it at package install). > > The stuff we design in systemd should work fine with an empty /etc. And > I think it would be a nice goal to achieve this for the whole > platform. That said, it's kinda unrealistic to achieve that anytime > soon. > > On Android you can drop the configuration partition to do a "firmware > reset" and we should really try to implement something similar with our > /etc. > > There's a currently a lot of stuff in /etc though that really doesn't > belong there. For example databases such as /etc/services or > /etc/protocols really should live in /usr/share or so. It's fine > allowing people to override these databases in /etc, but the upstream > databse should not be considered primary configuration that should live > in /etc.
Cool, that's all basically matching my general feelings also. So now that most of the distros are nicely working on CoreOS stuff a bit more closely these days (with special kudos to the Arch folk I think!) we can probably all keep this in mind as we march forward. Getting the dbus stuff out of there would be a nice start me thinks :) Cheers! Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited http://www.tribalogic.net/ Open Source: Mageia Contributor http://www.mageia.org/ PulseAudio Hacker http://www.pulseaudio.org/ Trac Hacker http://trac.edgewall.org/ _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
