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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by throw0101a on Friday July 29, 2022 @11:46AM (#32278449)
Strictly speaking /etc should be relatively static, and dynamic data should go into /var, so you (or the package installation) would create /var/lib/foobar with proper ownership.
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Re:Why the Windows Registry sucks technically (2010) by ElectricalUnion on Friday July 29, 2022 @03:15PM (#32280725)
> Strictly speaking /etc should be relatively static

I really wish that was true but nasty stuff like wpa_supplicant/, resolv.conf (now usually a systemd-resolved managed symlink), NetworkManager/ and X11/ lives there, very mutable and often constantly changing under the hood.

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