[Fedora-packaging] /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ files.

[Denis Leroy]

On 05/13/2009 02:29 AM, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
> Greetings.
>
> It's come up in the review of a package I have submitted that there is
> no guideline for /etc/dbus-1/system.d/ files.
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=500437
>
> My understanding is that these are not really config files. End users
> should not be editing them. Many of the packages that have files in
> there do not mark them as config. Some packages do. I suppose they
> could be edited by end users, but I wouldn't think it would be very
> common or desired.
>
> Should we have a guideline for them (or add to an existing one)?
>
> Should the be marked config or not?
>
> Should they not be under /etc/ at all?

These look to me more like resource XML files than actual configuration 
files. As such, they are probably more suited for /usr/share/dbus-1/ 
(which already contains a bunch of other xml files).

I would not block a review on this though, /etc contains a lot of 
"pseudo" configuration files like this (GConf schemas for example). From 
an upstream project perspective, they are configuration files, but from 
a Fedora desktop user, they are not meant to be modified...

-denis