Bug#978607: Please drop empty /etc/udev/udev.conf

[Josh Triplett]

On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 12:51:47PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
> Am 29.12.20 um 08:29 schrieb Josh Triplett:
> > The systemd family of packages has generally tried to minimize the
> > number of files in /etc, in favor of files in /usr.
> > 
> > /etc/udev/udev.conf contains nothing but comments. Please consider
> > dropping it (when unmodified).
> 
> This is true for all config files shipped by both udev and systemd (i.e. all
> files matching /etc/systemd/*.conf). All of them only contain comments (i.e.
> commented out default values).
> It feels a bit odd, to special-case udev here.

That's entirely fair. I reported it on udev because I was working with
udev at the time.

> I have to add, that those files are provided by upstream.
> I would feel more easy if this was discussed upstream. I don't really want
> to deviate downstream here.

Of course.

It looks like those files are installed upstream by the
install-sysconfdir option, which also controls the installation of empty
.d directories and similar, and I think we want to keep the latter. I've
filed https://github.com/systemd/systemd/issues/18112 about the
possibility of splitting that option.