/etc/default in Fedora

Adam Williamson awilliam at redhat.com
Mon Mar 5 22:24:19 UTC 2012


On Mon, 2012-03-05 at 21:37 +0100, Lars Seipel wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2012 21:20:12 MichaƂ Piotrowski wrote:
> > Why /etc/default dir is used instead of /etc/sysconfig? To be honest -
> > it's not really user friendly from long time RH Linux user POV.
> 
> It's what upstream uses. See
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/grub.html#Simple-configuration
> 
> Changing it would invalidate upstream documentation for Fedora users.

But then, we already 'invalidate upstream documentation for Fedora
users' by renaming all the command-line tools from 'grub-foo' to
'grub2-foo'.
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