Dne 10.4.2018 v 09:16 Takashi Iwai napsal(a): > On Wed, 04 Apr 2018 10:12:50 +0200, > Jaroslav Kysela wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I pushed two commits to the alsa-lib package which changes the >> default location for the add-on config files to /etc/alsa/conf.d from >> /usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf.d . The reason is to follow the scheme like in >> other packages. Also, the users might want to change or disable contents >> in those 'default' files. >> >> Example paths from other packages: >> >> # find /etc -type d -name conf.d >> /etc/fonts/conf.d >> /etc/NetworkManager/conf.d >> /etc/libblockdev/conf.d >> /etc/sssd/conf.d >> /etc/httpd/conf.d > > How about evaluating both paths, with preference of /etc over > /usr/share? The change to allow only /etc would break the existing > alsa-plugins packaging, for example, which still may put the config to > /usr/share/alsa/conf.d. > > In general, /usr/share is the place for global setups while /etc for > local machines. So it's more natural to put the package default setup > to /usr/share while allowing overriding it via /etc. You can imagine > /usr/share is shared via NFS. If anything different is necessary, you > put it in /etc. >From the packager perspective, it makes more sense to have only /etc/alsa/conf.d in the global alsa.conf and make symlinks to /usr/share like fontconfig does (/etc/fonts/conf.d). The users will modify only /etc contents as they should for the non-standard configurations. This variant also looks to me more straight for users. Opinions? Thanks, Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
