The base mounts.conf currently has a single entry that's RHEL-specific, and since there's no provision for drop-in support for mounts.conf, non-RHEL distributions need to resort to overrides to skip this mount config. Even though the mount is a no-op in case the path doesn't exist, shipping that config is misleading.
There's already work going on to move RHEL/distro-specific config as drop-in configs and have a distro-agnostic vanilla config shipped as default. This request follows the same idea. There's no rush for this to be a part of 6.0, though.
The base
mounts.confcurrently has a single entry that's RHEL-specific, and since there's no provision for drop-in support for mounts.conf, non-RHEL distributions need to resort to overrides to skip this mount config. Even though the mount is a no-op in case the path doesn't exist, shipping that config is misleading.There's already work going on to move RHEL/distro-specific config as drop-in configs and have a distro-agnostic vanilla config shipped as default. This request follows the same idea. There's no rush for this to be a part of 6.0, though.