Hi,
On Wed, Aug 28, Colin Walters wrote:
On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> More important was, that the absolut majority of people who gave
> feedback wanted /usr/etc, and the acceptance by many users wass more
> important than a few people where /etc is a symlink to /usr/etc.
Discussion on this is scattered around a whole bunch of places; I probably would have
done something like a github gist or hackmd.io doc, or just a generic web page, and linked
the mail discussions to that.
There was a mail several months or so ago with this github Url, which we
used for the discussions:
https://github.com/thkukuk/atomic-updates_and_etc/blob/master/README.md
We also started to create an openSUSE specific wiki page:
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_UsrEtc
The Subject line of this email is "Re: FYI: opensuse decision
regarding configuration files in /etc and /usr/etc" which makes me think a decision
was made, but what is it exactly?
We have a fairly nontrivial stake in this outcome given that OSTree has been shipping
/usr/etc for *years* and it's worked quite successfully.
We are still in the early state of adjusting the infrastructure/checks and
create PoCs. So it is still changeable if others want to join and come
up with a better alternative name for /usr/etc. But this really requires
a strong commitment to do the same, not that we change the paths and
still nobody follows with this.
Thorsten
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