[arch-projects] [PATCH] initscripts: load of sysctl files at startup

[Tom Gundersen]

On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:51 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 11:44:17PM +0200, Earendil wrote:
>> I have also added the capability to stip th sysctl.conf files in many
>> files in the sysctl.d directory.
>> This idea was inspired by Debian architecture.
>
> Sure, systemd uses this as well. Do we have any cases where distributing
> a sysctl file with a package is needed? I'm really not sure this is
> something that's wanted/needed in Arch.

I agree with Dave, if we are going to support this there should be at
least one user of it. Are there any packages that either already ship
with their own sysctl file, or that would benefit from doing it?

If we are going to support a sysctl.d directory, I think we should do
it in exactly the same way as systemd does (being almost, but not
quite, the same would only be confusing):
<http://0pointer.de/public/systemd-man/sysctl.d.html>.

Cheers,

Tom