patch -- config files in /etc

[David Zeuthen]

On Mon, 2009-11-30 at 13:31 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Oh, the FHS is full of flaws, no question. I'm just surprised that this
> particular thing is controversial. (And let's not hold up
> iscsi-initiator-utils as a paragon of something to follow....)

I'm not a big fan of the FHS either.

> If you take a look at the patch I posted (here and in the Fedora bug),
> that's exactly what it does. 
> 
> (Except it uses /etc/security/polkit-1, which I think is a good idea
> particularly given your comments on making sure users realize this is
> security-sensitive configuration. And because it matches how where the
> consolehelper configuration lives, and since I think replacing consolehelper
> entirely with polkit is a reasonable goal, that makes the mental migration
> path easier for admins and doc writers.)

I think /etc/security might be a Fedora-ism. Generally I'm a fan of
verbosity (for better or worse) and clearly separating different
subsystems - dumping the files all in /etc/security kinda makes you
think the files belong together and there's a slight risk of naming
conflicts. Different views I guess.

> > So if you want to do this, file a bug with a patch and we'll take it
> > from there. 
> 
> Would you like a new freedesktop.org bug filed?

Yeah, please. Otherwise I'm just going to forget about it with all the
various stuff I'm working on these days ;-)

> Yeah, that's mentioned in the Fedora bug too, but I figured one thing at a
> time.
> 
> Thanks, David. I appreciate the reconsideration.

No problem.

Thanks,
David