On 2023-08-17 16:57, Olaf Hering wrote:
Thu, 17 Aug 2023 16:51:10 +0200 Michal Suchánek <msuchanek@suse.de>:
With the fifes shipping only documentation and no actual settings there is absolutely no problem with rpmnew files.
So you are saying we will never reach the goal of "no rpm-owned files in /etc"? Was that even a goal? Perhaps it was just an idea, and the current state has no practical downside.
Olaf
The goal of "no rpm-owned files in /etc" is very much a goal Distribution provided packages should avoid packaging fils in user-interactively managed directories like /home, /srv, /var and /etc In an ideal world all of our distribution provided configuration would be somewhere under /usr, such as /usr/lib already used by systemd, or /usr/etc used by various other packages /etc would then be used purely for user-provided overrides, either in the form of drop-ins (preferred as they are more likely to layer nicely with changes to the distribution-provided defaults) or in the form of replacement configuration files. In an ideal world, rpmnew files should never be triggered. We should work towards that ideal, and not accept the current status quo as acceptable. -- Richard Brown Distributions Architect SUSE Software Solutions Germany GmbH, Frankenstraße 146, D-90461 Nuremberg, Germany (HRB 36809, AG Nürnberg) Managing Directors/Geschäftsführer: Ivo Totev, Andrew McDonald, Werner Knoblich