[CentOS-devel] [opstools] overwriting package provided config files

Hello,

for opstools-ansible[1], which installs a monitoring server, we had the brief discussion of overwriting/replacing package provided config files vs. adding changes to a .d directory for the application.

Specifically, this was the request for collectd. Additional plugins and are loaded and configured by placing a respective config snippet to /etc/collectd.d/...conf.

The question is: is it a valid expectiation, that operators wouldn't want the package provided config file /etc/collectd.conf modified?

Do you care at all?

Best, Matthias

[1] https://github.com/centos-opstools/opstools-ansible