Re: Problem building fail2ban with PKG_SYSCONFBASE=/etc

[Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Dec 19, 2025 at 8:38 PM Greg Troxel <gdt%lexort.com@localhost> wrote:
>
> Andrew Randrianasulu <randrianasulu%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
>
> >> My opinion is that only minimal config files should be installed, not
> >> files with tons of commented out stuff, and that over-installation of
> >> documentation wrongly called config is a problem in general.
> >
> > as non-admin I prefer commented examples
>
> Those are 100% fine to be in /usr/pkg/share/examples/foo.  I don't
> object to that at all.  What I object to is installing a 1000-line
> config file that is in active use, that leads to
>
>   sysadmin must read/check the entire file to verify that it isn't doing
>   something unwanted

As Slackware (home) user I was surprised to find pkgsrc install config
files into /usr/pkg/etc ...

But I guess for someone  who was  using netBSD as long as i was using
Slackware changes will be painful


>
>   merge conflicts that are unnecessary
>
>
> And, a program that needs a huge config file is IMHO badly designed.
> The defaults should be ok so that mostly one needs to only set things
> that are locally different.  But usually the problem is either that
> upstream thinks installing a huge file of comments is a good thing, or
> that pkgsrc misinterprets this as something that should be installed.