[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1122150: Bug#1122150: Bug#1122150: Bug#1122150: pipewire: init scripts for OpenRC

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.12.25 um 18:45 schrieb Ansgar 🙀:
> Hi,
> 
> On Mon, 2025-12-08 at 18:15 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> given the overall install base of openrc [1] (which is mostly
>> non-existant), I do not think we should install those files in /etc by
>> default and clutter everyones filesystem.
> 
> +1, especially as conffiles persist even after a package gets
> uninstalled. (Purging is a separate, manual action.)
> 
>> I'd be fine with having them provided as example files in /usr/share/doc
>> with a corresponding README.
> 
> Or in /usr/lib/openrc/user or something similar. I don't know whether
> openrc looks file in some such location though. However shipping random
> files in /usr is much less annoying that adding files to /etc.
> 
> (/usr/lib/user is probably a bad name to grab by openrc, but so is
> /etc/user...)
> 

That's a valid point. I find /etc/user a bad and questionable choice. 
Nowadays, this should be properly namespaced like say /etc/openrc/user.

Even more reason to *not* ship this in the debian package by default.

Michael


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