Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2020 10:13:09 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@rocketmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Technological advantages over Linux Message-ID: <20200215101309.4920e184@moonstudio> In-Reply-To: <20200215083848.ca1d5b3d463e50da5947a381@sohara.org> References: <20200214121620.GA80657@admin.sibptus.ru> <BAF0D681-7C95-419E-A49C-993F0EA39748@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200214195430.25365f87@moonstudio> <7371554e-82a3-a7aa-b764-ae2627e241d3@kicp.uchicago.edu> <20200214203134.17f6d4bd@moonstudio> <20200215064911.GF1482@admin.sibptus.ru> <20200215083848.ca1d5b3d463e50da5947a381@sohara.org>
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On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 08:38:48 +0000, Steve O'Hara-Smith wrote: >On Sat, 15 Feb 2020 13:49:11 +0700 Victor Sudakov wrote: >> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote: >> > >> > An update never ever would replace /etc/foo.conf . On Arch Linux it >> > would be stored as /etc/foo.conf.pacnew , almost all Linux distros >> > provide such a solution, but the admin is screwed, if an update >> > does add a file to /etc/foo.d/ . >> >> FreeBSD has taken this path too (looking at /etc/rc.conf.d/, >> /etc/cron.d and numerous others). > >FreeBSD has used this approach to carefully separate default >configuration from user provided configuration - the directories are >generally for sysadmins the files for the distribution. For Linux it should be like this, too, but actually it isn't. To be fair, not all Linux packagers using drop-in dirs are berserkers. A "base" package might contain a rough default configuration. For using software of a "highly specialised" package one setting of a rough default configuration _must_ be changed. With good faith the packager overrides this value by a drop-in file, since using this package's software anyway requires this special value. _But_ maybe the package wasn't installed to use the software, but just to get the documentation and the user isn't aware that a value was changed in a way, that breaks the working install. However, some packagers are berserkers, completely misusing drop-in dirs.
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