Jobs under /lib instead of /etc?

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:16 AM, Michael T <raselmsh at hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello,
>
> Something that has always annoyed me about traditional init was the fact that the scripts are kept under /etc, although nowadays they are almost never user configuration files in the sense that they used to be, but scripts which come with a package and are not intended to be changed by the user.  Have you considered changing this in upstart, and having package scripts go under, say, /lib/init, with /etc/init only there for users to override defaults on a case-by-case basis, if they so desire?
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> This would also play nicer with dpkg's special handling of files which live under /etc.

This seems like a replay of a previous email... The suggestion you're
making makes absolutely no sense from a traditional Unix layout -- 99%
of the time /lib and /usr/lib are reserved for system-provided shared
and static _binary_ libraries [1]; jobfiles and upstart configuration
files should continue to live in /etc in my opinion because these are
configuration files and they shouldn't be changed unless the
administrator has a particular use that necessitates the change.

Thanks,
-Garrett

[1] The only contradiction I can think of to this paradigm at the
moment is perl's and python standard libraries and site package
directories, etc's modules.