https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2363206 --- Comment #10 from Georg Sauthoff <fedora@xxxxxxxx> --- Regarding ghost files - I'm not sure how useful it is to mark such an optional file as ghost. My expectation is that 99.9 % of users are fine with the default sshd_config from /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/46sshd/. I don't find anything about ghost macro usage in the fedora packaging guide. Also, the disadvantage I see with ghost is the interaction with `rpm --verify` and `rpm -f` then, i.e. users are easily misled that a present ghost file was installed by a package. /etc/dracut-sshd/sshd_config is an optional overwrite that shadows /usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/46sshd/sshd_config, if present. This overwrite mechanism is similar to what is used in systemd and other software packages. Looking at my system I see a few ghost files for systemd config files (such as /etc/systemd/journald.conf) but not for every service. I understand that the touched file isn't really installed, because of the ghost marking. But I'm not sure about the directory. If it's unconditionally created I see that as suboptimal, because, again, I expect most people to leave it empty then. --- FWIW, regarding configuration under /usr - the relevant section from the packaging guide: > Don’t use %config or %config(noreplace) under /usr. /usr is deemed to not contain configuration files in Fedora. https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#_configuration_files
