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To: Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
cc: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de,
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Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) 
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:45:59 -0700
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
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> Yes, host independent, but not architecture independent...
> 
> /etc/rc for instance has to be architecture dependent to initialize
> weird HW...

Isn't that what /etc/rc.i386 is for?  You could certainly maintain
that paradigm in /usr/share/etc as well as anywhere else, right?

						Jordan