The AppArmor tools (YaST and aa-genprof and aa-logprof) support the use of a local repository. Whenever you start to create a new profile from scratch, and there already is one inactive profile in your local repository, you are asked whether you would like to use the existing inactive one from /etc/apparmor/profiles/extras and whether you want to base your efforts on it. If you decide to use this profile, it gets copied over to the directory of profiles enabled by default (/etc/apparmor.d) and loaded whenever AppArmor is started. Any further further adjustments will be done to the active profile under /etc/apparmor.d.