On 2020/03/02 14:49, David C. Rankin wrote:
I really really think it is a bad idea to move those files out of /etc for the reasons I've stated. Additionally, openSUSE seems to be an outlier in wanting to do it. There are a lot of great minds in the distro management game, but none, not Arch, Ubuntu, Debian, etc... have wanted to move services or protocols out of /etc.
It just opens a huge can of worms to try and not only patch the normal apps that may have the location hardcoded and that you would normally think of as directly using the files, but you also have to discover all those apps that make tangential use of the files and patch them too.
The ramification of changing basic OS file locations is horrifying. That said, if something could be done with unionfs with a vendor-base and user-top layer, and if that could be mounted at the original location...and if the kernel union driver still sees the physical HD's, but user processes only see the newly mounted duplicate 'bind' of the unionfs, then it might work... But any sort of emergency boot procedures could be really ugly The whole thing makes me wanna bury my head under something because ALOT of normal apps have those locations hardcoded, "knowing" they don't need alternate resolution methods for most end-user situations. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org