Hi,

On Wed, Aug 28, Colin Walters wrote:

On Fri, Aug 16, 2019, at 1:11 PM, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

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More important was, that the absolut majority of people who gave feedback wanted /usr/etc, and the acceptance by many users wass more important than a few people where /etc is a symlink to /usr/etc.

Discussion on this is scattered around a whole bunch of places; I probably would have done something like a github gist or hackmd.io doc, or just a generic web page, and linked the mail discussions to that.

There was a mail several months or so ago with this github Url, which we used for the discussions: https://github.com/thkukuk/atomic-updates_and_etc/blob/master/README.md

We also started to create an openSUSE specific wiki page: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_UsrEtc

The Subject line of this email is "Re: FYI: opensuse decision regarding configuration files in /etc and /usr/etc" which makes me think a decision was made, but what is it exactly?

We have a fairly nontrivial stake in this outcome given that OSTree has been shipping /usr/etc for *years* and it's worked quite successfully.

We are still in the early state of adjusting the infrastructure/checks and create PoCs. So it is still changeable if others want to join and come up with a better alternative name for /usr/etc. But this really requires a strong commitment to do the same, not that we change the paths and still nobody follows with this.

Thorsten