Bug#326637: Should /etc/X11/xkb/* be conffiles at all?

[Daniel Stone <daniels@debian.org>]

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 11:01:48AM +0100, Denis Barbier wrote:
> Maybe a solution is to have files installed by packages under a
> given directory $dir1 (under /usr?), sysadmins can add/customize files
> under /etc, and a magic command run after editing /etc files would merge
> /etc and $dir1 into $dir2 (under /var?).  X clients and servers should
> then be modified to look for their files under $dir2:$dir1.
> Do you believe that this is feasible/desirable?

Absolutely, yes.  Just depends on whether or not someone gets around to
it.