From owner-freebsd-current Tue Apr 30 03:11:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id DAA25541 for current-outgoing; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 03:11:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from epprod.elsevier.co.uk (epprod.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.222.35]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id DAA25535 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 03:11:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from snowdon.elsevier.co.uk (snowdon.elsevier.co.uk [193.131.197.164]) by epprod.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA01983 for ; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:49 +0100 Received: from cadair.elsevier.co.uk (actually host cadair) by snowdon with SMTP (PP); Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:24 +0100 Received: (from dpr@localhost) by cadair.elsevier.co.uk (8.6.12/8.6.12) id LAA17456; Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:11 +0100 From: Paul Richards Message-Id: <199604301010.LAA17456@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:11 +0100 (BST) Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <2657.830843559@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 30, 96 05:52:39 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > >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. Why isn't it? Until it's edited and installed in /etc it should be just a template that would be host independant and entirely shareable? -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155