[csw-maintainers] versioning /etc

[Philip Brown]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 02:03:47PM -0400, Ben Walton wrote:
> Nope.  The point of etckeeper is to version /etc...it's not to
> mitigate sloppy packaging. [...]
> The beauty
> of this is that it can help in cases where a new version of a package
> breaks your existing install by trampling a config file (incompatible
> changes, etc)...or if you want to see exactly what it changed.

Hmm. that sounds potentially useful.

> It
> goes beyond CSW packages, to everything that lives in /etc.

And that sounds... like a lot of work. 
At a very high level, do you have architectural suggestions as to how this
sort of integration would function?