[arch-general] systemd native files in etc

[Oon-Ee Ng]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht at piing.fr> wrote:
> The 23/08/12, Ike Devolder wrote:
>
>> No there is no package providing those files.
>>
>> why ?
>>
>> if arch would provide you with defaults every time the defaults get updated
>> you would get *.pacnew files in your etc. since those files are depending on
>> your system and are user choice it would not be good to provide those.
>
> What upgrade are you talking about? OP is talking about configuration
> files not willing to be upgraded for years (if not for their whole life
> time).
>
> I tend to think it's a mistake.
>
> --
> Nicolas Sebrecht

If the files are provided in linked packages to their functionality,
there'd be a new .pacnew everytime the linked package was updated.

If the files are grouped together in a 'default-confs' package, if for
any reason upstream changes any one of them, all the rest would
generate a .pacnew