On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 17:21, Daniel J Walsh <dwalsh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Why /etc/default dir is used instead of /etc/sysconfig? To be >> honest - it's not really user friendly from long time RH Linux user >> POV. >> > Just disable SELinux in /etc/selinux/config. Which is exactly the use model of /etc we recommend everybody to follow. /etc is *system config* and might be *default*, using another subdirectory with that name is superfluous. /etc/defaults/ makes no real sense to start with. It's either a 'default', then it belongs into the service compiled-in, or it is local *system config* data, and then it's not a *default* anymore. People who introduced that the first time seem just confused by default. :) /etc/sysconfig/ is a fedora'ism that we try to avoid as much as possible. It only manifests the Linux balkanization, which hurts everybody in the end. We shoud phase that out, it should only be reserved for legacy hacks nobody wants to fix, and not be used for anything new. So, please all just use a subdir directly in /etc with the name of the package/subsystem, and put your files in there, that's what /etc is for, it is already *default* and *system config*. And please name and layout everything in a way that upstream can ship it identical for every distro, we really need to end the useless differences between the distros. Thanks, Kay -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
