On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 3:47 PM, Nicolas Sebrecht <nsebrecht@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > The 23/08/12, Ike Devolder wrote: > >> No there is no package providing those files. >> >> why ? >> >> if arch would provide you with defaults every time the defaults get updated >> you would get *.pacnew files in your etc. since those files are depending on >> your system and are user choice it would not be good to provide those. > > What upgrade are you talking about? OP is talking about configuration > files not willing to be upgraded for years (if not for their whole life > time). > > I tend to think it's a mistake. > > -- > Nicolas Sebrecht If the files are provided in linked packages to their functionality, there'd be a new .pacnew everytime the linked package was updated. If the files are grouped together in a 'default-confs' package, if for any reason upstream changes any one of them, all the rest would generate a .pacnew
