[arch-general] Re: systemd native files in etc

[Nicolas Sebrecht]

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.

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Nicolas Sebrecht