netdev - Re: [iproute2 00/22] Support for stateless configuration (read from /etc and /usr)

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Message-ID: <20230719143628.4ca42c3f@hermes.local>
Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2023 14:36:28 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To: Gioele Barabucci <gioele@...rio.it>
Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [iproute2 00/22] Support for stateless configuration (read from
 /etc and /usr)

On Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:50:44 +0200
Gioele Barabucci <gioele@...rio.it> wrote:

> Dear iproute2 maintainers,
> 
> this patch series adds support for the so called "stateless" configuration
> pattern, i.e. reading the default configuration from /usr while allowing
> overriding it in /etc, giving system administrators a way to define local
> configuration without changing any distro-provided files.
> 
> In practice this means that each configuration file FOO is loaded
> from /usr/lib/iproute2/FOO unless /etc/iproute2/FOO exists.

I don't understand the motivation for the change.
Is /etc going away in some future version of systemd?

Perhaps just using an an environment variable instead of hard coding
/etc/iproute2 directory.

I do like the conslidation of the initialize_dir code though.