On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 10:14:14AM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Am 21.03.2013 08:04, schrieb Daniel Wallace:
After watching Allan's talk at SINFO, I remembered one big thing, when he mentioned certain projects moving away of shipping configuration files and preinstalling them directly to /etc and instead install the defaults to /usr/ and overriding them in a similar fashion to how systemd does it.
This makes sense for hooks for example, but not for the main configuration file.
Look more closely at the systemd example: It has units in /usr/lib/systemd/{system,user} and they are overridable in /etc. However, the system.conf, login.conf, ... files are _only_ in /etc/systemd/ and nowhere in /usr/lib/. Didn't I say to leave pacman.conf and makepkg.conf in /etc and just move tehm to /etc/pacman? If not, that is what I meant for those
So I asked about this in #archlinux-pacman and this bug report was pointed out to me [1].
Here are 2 ideas, tell me what you think.
1) Move everything to /usr/lib/pacman/ /usr/lib/pacman/gnupg/
Actually, the gnupg folder should go to /var/lib/pacman/gnupg/ (and should always have been there).
/usr/lib/pacman/hooks/ (for later) /usr/lib/pacman/repos.d
-- Daniel Wallace Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred) Georgia Institute of Technology