Neal Gompa (ニール・ゴンパ)

Sure, but that tool isn't used by default and hardly anyone knows about it. And we're generally trying in Fedora to reduce the stuff that is package manager controlled in...

It makes it easier for Mock to work and update properly on transactional-update (openSUSE MicroOS) and rpm-ostree based systems (Fedora Silverblue/Kinoite/CoreOS) if we make this change, too.

I'm fine with moving it in Mock 3.0.

> Shouldn't we use "/usr/lib" instead of "/usr/share"? The config files themselves are architecture independent and are identical across architectures, so `/usr/share` is much more appropriate.

Mainly FHS: https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch04s11.html

Well, if we move to an override mechanism, then these files are static. And even today, most people treat them as static. Ideally, we'd use `/usr/etc`, but I think RPM-OSTree...

> Yes, I was about to ask about that ... why are they blocking us? I believe RPM-OSTree reserves `/usr/etc` for its config staging redirection stuff, but @cgwalters would know...

Why would this require FPC or FHS?

@nkadel `/etc/mock` wouldn't go away. Indeed, if you wanted to install config files there, it should work fine. What I want is all the _packaged_ configs to `/usr/share/mock`. This actually...

> Moving things and expecting the configuration tool author and users to keep up is likely to break other people's software. The return on the investment of a new layout...