Thorsten Kukuk schrieb:
On Wed, Aug 21, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
Given /usr/etc is becoming a thing now, would it not be time to change the definition of %_sysconfdir to %_prefix/etc so it matches up with %_bindir et al? Yes, that is sort of a larger task, but I am looking at the larger picture here.
If you read the official documentation of sysconfdir (read-only configuration files never modified), then yes, sysconfdir should be /usr/etc and the current usage with /etc is wrong.
But I'm afraid: we would break and need to fix the whole world, there are far too many out there using it. And we would not be able to adjust one package after the other, instead we would need to adjust everything at once ...
I guess if we really wanted to go for a clean solution for the future we could think of some macro magic to flag all packages legacy initially and then unflag the ones that are adjusted. cu Ludwig -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.com/ SUSE Linux GmbH, GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org