On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:56:00PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> It has pretty much the same purpose and semantics like an /etc/default/
> file. On a desktop it should very much be a config file (not a
> conffile). It seems to me it only is not any more because our phones
> have a broken /etc/, not because we actually don't want it to be
> configuration?
In general, if the primary way the file is edited is from the software and
not via using an editor on the filesystem, I don't think there's a strong
argument that the file belongs in /etc.
On Thu, Jan 09, 2014 at 04:56:00PM -0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> It has pretty much the same purpose and semantics like an /etc/default/
> file. On a desktop it should very much be a config file (not a
> conffile). It seems to me it only is not any more because our phones
> have a broken /etc/, not because we actually don't want it to be
> configuration?
In general, if the primary way the file is edited is from the software and
not via using an editor on the filesystem, I don't think there's a strong
argument that the file belongs in /etc.