On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 09:36:05AM +0200, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: > The pain is the need to merge new changes while updating. Some tools > (like pacdiff) can help with the job but it's very frustrating to have > one configuration file and merge lot of changes in it. Especially when > it comes to cosmetic/comments changes. > > Having one big configuration file means it's much easier to make > mistakes in it and have strong problems because of that. Dedicated > files to services/requirements make such problems more isolated. Yes, I concur. Although I'm not so much a fan of systemd, I can say with confidence that this assertion matches my experience. Dividing the configurations makes each package far more likely to update itself cleanly withit botching-up some other, unrelated part of your system.
