Hi all, On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 3:36 PM, Seblu <seblu@seblu.net> wrote:
I don't understand something, even if we doesn't have any package using /etc/sysctl.d is an handy way of adding config to sysctl for *real* users.
So even if the number of packages that might need this was underwhelming, Seblu convinced me in a chat that it might still be a good thing to have for an admin. The way I understood it was that he has a collection of .conf files, each of which has a different purpose (such as "laptop", "noswap", "xen", etc). Then it is much simpler to drop one of these files into one of his machine's /etc/sysctl.d/ directories than to have to edit /etc/sysctl.conf. This sounds fair enough to me. So if anyone want to implement the standard outlined in the systemd manpage I'd be happy to merge it (please coordinate a bit, so not two people start working on the same thing though). Maybe inspiration can be taken from Dave's arch-tmpfiles script for how to deal with precedence of config file dirs. We should keep backwards compatibility and always load /etc/sysctl.conf. Cheers, Tom