Core packages are using %config for files being installed under /usr

[Laurent Rineau]

On Friday 02 March 2007 13:00:14 Axel Thimm wrote:
> OK, let's quote the FHS again which repeadedly lays great emphasis on
> keeping /usr read-only (or possible to mount read-only if you prefer),
> and not only from configuration files.

Let stop that useless flame.

I *agree* that FSH target, about /usr, is to allow /usr to be mounted 
read-only.

But "read-only" and "configuration files" are not correlated at all. When the 
administrator modifies a config files (I mean with an editor), it is 
an "admin operation", like an upgrade. I repeat: I have known some machines 
with /etc/ mounted read-only! Every admin-operation on a partition can 
require remounting it read-write. It includes upgrades, but also modification 
of config files.

However, I agree that every config file of the system should have an instance 
in /etc, so that host-specific stuff can be used in that config file. I am 
not arguing on that point. I just wanted to spot out that your reading of the 
FSH is not correct.

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