Interesting! Thank you for your research! After working 20 hours straight - uptime said so - I did not feel like it to do deeper research myself. :) -Ramon On 26/10/2022 13:31, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 26, 2022 at 3:42 AM Ramon Fischer wrote: >> I do not know, what the developers were thinking to encourage the user >> to edit a default file, which gets potentially overwritten after each >> package update... >> >> "etc-update" helps to have an eye on, but muscle memory and fast fingers >> are sometimes faster. > The Gentoo preference tends to be to follow upstream. So if sudo > upstream distributes a file like this that has comments encouraging > users to edit it, then that is likely how Gentoo will ship it. If > sudo switched to moving everything into an include-based system > UPSTREAM then Gentoo would probably start shipping that. If you look > at the sudo ebuild you'll see that the config files are 100% upstream. > > If you look at things like systemd units or udev rules they're much > more include-oriented, as this is the upstream preference. > > Gentoo has emphasized using config file protection early on, and > doesn't have any official preference for using included config > directories distro-wide. Portage has been moving in this direction > for a while though (for the stuff in /etc/portage). > -- GPG public key: 5983 98DA 5F4D A464 38FD CF87 155B E264 13E6 99BF