From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 30 00:11:32 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id AAA13757 for current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:11:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from tfs.com (tfs.com [140.145.250.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id AAA13752 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 00:11:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from critter.tfs.com by tfs.com (smail3.1.28.1) with SMTP id m0uE9aE-0003w0C; Tue, 30 Apr 96 00:10 PDT Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.tfs.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id FAA02659; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 05:52:39 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: critter.tfs.com: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Wolfram Schneider cc: Bruce Evans , jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Apr 1996 01:16:38 +0200." <199604292316.BAA09153@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 05:52:39 +0000 Message-ID: <2657.830843559@critter.tfs.com> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >How about making all installs into /etc end up in /usr[*]etc instead, > >and then have one target in a makefile somewhere that would wack everything > >from there to /etc, if that is what the "root" wants ? > > > >[*] could be something like > [...] > > something else which I didn't think of. > > /usr/share/etc That would be obviously wrong. It is >not< shareable, now even inside the same architecture. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | phk@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD Core-team. http://www.freebsd.org/~phk | phk@login.dknet.dk Private mailbox. whois: [PHK] | phk@ref.tfs.com TRW Financial Systems, Inc. Future will arrive by its own means, progress not so.