On Sat, Aug 29, 2020, at 2:19 PM, Igor Raits wrote: > And only way to get to the distribution defaults is to download RPM > with matching version, unpack it and get its /etc/foo.conf. On ostree-based systems, the defaults for /etc are in /usr/etc, so you always have them - it needs this to do the "3 way merge" upgrade for config files. > > What is the actual benefit of this? Needlessly breaking existing > > configuration, making it impossible to cleanly upgrade systems, > > or write logic that takes into account the existing configuration of > > a given > > program? If you blow away /etc/, you will have a well and truly > > broken system. > > If you want to start a configuration from scratch, re-install. > > There's nothing > > wrong with that approach, and it works very well. This has been the > > case for > > nearly three decades now https://blog.verbum.org/2020/08/22/immutable-%E2%86%92-reprovisionable-anti-hysteresis/ touches on some of the benefits of "fragmented" configs. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
