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From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de>
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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
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Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) 
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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
>> > > /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...

/usr/share/syscons is architecture dependent too.