> The argument then was that conf.d is standard on other distributions > for this purpose; the counter argument being that it is extra now and > change for the sake of change is not desirable. > > It seems that one additional strike now against extra is that it seems > to have a stigma of containing sample files, which led to this whole > thread, I think. > > With that background, I'm tilting towards conf.d. Any other thoughts?
Fine. Let us have conf.d (new empty directory) under /etc/apache2 . > > P.S. Since extra contains only examples from the src distro, I'd > rather see it under /usr somewhere, to correctly reflect the files are > static, not editable configuration. > Let us not move "extra" out of /etc/apache2 since this contains only example configuration files and /etc/apache2 is the directory related to server configuration. The initial set of permissions can be changed from 644 to 444. And all the .conf files within extra dir should be renamed to .conf-example. -- Seema.
