Re: F36 Change: Authselect: Move State Files to /etc (Self-Contained Change proposal)

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On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 4:56 AM Vitaly Zaitsev via devel
<devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 19/01/2022 09:54, Pavel Březina wrote:
> > This is the intention, it should not be touched by users therefore it
> > should not be visible to users, in my opinion.
>
> Packaging of hidden files/directories is not a good idea.
>
> /etc is meant to be editable by user.

Whereas /var/lib is not:

FHS 5.8.1
Users must never need to modify files in /var/lib to configure a
package's operation, and the specific file hierarchy used to store the
data must not be exposed to regular users.


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Chris Murphy
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