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Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig
To: rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 19:17:17 +0100 (BST)
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In reply to Rodney W. Grimes who said
> 
> 
> Yes, there is something wrong with /usr/local/etc, that would be imposing
> a structure on one place (/usr/local) we said we would absolutely not do 
> that to in the base system.
> 

Yeah but we're talking about *our* packages here and allowing them
to install hooks to start themselves up. Our packages already place
a structure on /usr/local so they might as well include their startup
files there too. 

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  Paul Richards, Bluebird Computer Systems. FreeBSD core team member. 
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