Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:05:56 +0200 (MET DST) From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij) To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: review request Message-ID: <199604300905.LAA13883@gvr.win.tue.nl> In-Reply-To: <1129.830721483@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Apr 28, 96 12:58:03 pm
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Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > I think usr.bin/mail/Makefile is wrong. make install shall not install > > any file in /etc. Jordan? > > I agree, it shouldn't. What should really happen is that mail.rc > should propagate to /usr/share/misc along with mail's other files > and we should adjust _PATH_MASTER_RC to point to /usr/share/misc/mail.rc > instead of /etc/mail.rc. > > However, since this would constitute an interface change and leave > anyone's customized /etc/mail.rc file high-and-dry (unless you changed > the algorithm to search along a path, with /etc first), I think that > I'll wait for feedback on this one before doing anything. > > Comments? I don't really care where it is installed. For historical reasons I would leave it in /etc however. What I'm interested in is *how* files in /etc should be installed. There are 2 ways: 1) Have them installed via make install in the source directory of the program needing it. 2) Have them installed via the makefile in usr/src/etc Can I conclude that method 2) is in favor? -Guido
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