> There's no automatic file merge in general (hence .pacnew and such) so you gotta do it by hand (and not everything is available with the foo.d/ hack). The reg

> There's no automatic file merge in general (hence .pacnew and such) so you gotta do it by hand (and not everything is available with the foo.d/ hack). The registry already operates at the value granularity so it bypasses this kind of issue. it gets around this issue by creating a gigantic systemwide or per user bucket of crap that inevitably ends up inconsistent. since it is custom there is no good tooling for doing diffs and many developers treat it as quasi private so the config values are often not human readable. there are management utilities that work ok, until they don't. then you have to start over because who knows, it's all just crap. it's literally like a jerry seinfeld joke. you think configuration should be sensible, then everybody just sees this bucket and goes wooopty woopty woo and then it's just filled with crap. bill gates probably sent emails about it. "i tried to look at the registry, but then it was just trashed." that is the registry. a little shadow filesystem with a bizarre layout with weird and incomplete tools that is filled with crap.