polkit-kde-kcmmodules editing /usr

[Robby Workman]

On Fri, 26 Oct 2012, Sebastian Kügler wrote:

> On Thursday, October 25, 2012 14:38:01 Robby Workman wrote:
>> On Thu, 25 Oct 2012, Kevin Kofler wrote:
>>> On Thursday 25 October 2012 at 09:47:08, Andrea Scarpino wrote:
>>>> I cannot help here as we don't provide it in our repos.
>>>
>>> We (Fedora) neither.
>>>
>>>> But on Arch Linux we have the same kind of issue with KDM; it stores the
>>>> configs in /usr/share/config/kdm.
>>>> How do you handle that?
>>>
>>> In Fedora, /usr/share/config/kdm is a symlink to /etc/kde/kdm.
>>
>> Ditto for Slackware.
>
> The obvious question here is: If everybody changes it, why do we ship it that
> way?


Good question, and it makes me wonder why we've always just "worked around"
it instead of sending patches to do it correctly.  I'm not in a position to
look farther into that right now, so I'll just say that it would seem better
for KDE stuff to use /usr/share/config/$whatever/ for packaged defaults 
(IOW, *exactly* what you currently do) with support for overriding those
defaults in $sysconfdir/kde/$whatever/

-RW