The 24/08/12, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
My understanding is that the conf file locations (and contents) are synchronized between distros. A side-effect of systemd. Hence I don't believe Arch is upstream in this case.
AFAIK, systemd does not provide samples for /etc/localtime, /etc/vconsole.conf, etc. It provides manual pages only. If it would, not including them in the package would break the KISS principle as arch would not stick as near as possible to upstream.
I do not know what sort of reason could require an update. I also would not bet on the files being in the same form and at the same location forever.
Ok, I understand you. This leads to my next point: I do expect pacman to notify me with .pacnew files if a package like systemd require changes in configuration files. It would not be annoyance but expected behaviour. -- Nicolas Sebrecht