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To: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:11 +0100."
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:20:05 +0000
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From: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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> > > /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?

Yes, host independent, but not architecture independent...

/etc/rc for instance has to be architecture dependent to initialize
weird HW...

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