The FHS /usr song (was: Core packages are using %config for files being installed under /usr)

[Laurent Rineau]

On Friday 02 March 2007 20:48:19 Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 07:47:41PM +0100, Laurent Rineau wrote:
> > I do not see why we prevent all our users from modifying
> > /usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm, as soon as we provide them a way
> > to do the same thing in /etc/.
>
> Sigh. :(
>
> This is not about what /etc is missing, but what /usr has too much.
>
> If you allow modification under /usr in general you shoot off the
> applications that need to assume /usr not being edited by Joe Admin
> Random.

All right, I get your point. I eventually agree with your understanding of the 
FHS.

All config files in /usr should be moved, if possible, to /etc/.

The FHS authors should have thought about sitewise configuration files, but 
that is another problem.

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Laurent Rineau
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