Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH RESEND v1 2/8] tools: move scripts from etc to libexec

[Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ian Jackson writes ("Re: [PATCH RESEND v1 2/8] tools: move scripts from etc to 
libexec"):
> Olaf Hering writes ("[PATCH RESEND v1 2/8] tools: move scripts from etc to 
> libexec"):
> > In the near future all fresh installations will have an empty /etc.
> 
> Err, no ?

More constructively:

I think the ability of the admin to edit these scripts is important
and I have used it myself in the past.  With my Debian Xen maintainer
hat on I have no intention of moving these files out of /etc.

If the maintainer of Xen in some other distro wishes to put these
files in /usr/lib and consequently make them harder to edit then
(1) my advice as Xen upstream tools maintainer is that this would be a
bad idea (2) if that maintainer wants to persist with this then they
should do this in the packages for their distro.

In support of (2), I would welcome patches that make it easier for a
distro maintainer to make these kind of choices.

Right now my view is that I do not think it would be appropriate to
change the upstream default, regardless of the installation target
operating system, but I might be open to argument on that for specific
target operating systems if the appropriate distro maintainers were to
make a case.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
Ian.

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