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J Wunsch wrote:

> 
> If you're NFS-exporting your /usr/local, you are basically expected to
> care for /usr/local/etc yourself.  Typically, this would be a symlink
> to /etc/local/ then.  There's quite more in /usr/local/etc that will
> make it machine-specific, like various configuration files.
> 
> This should probably be mentioned somewhere.
> 

But /usr/local is *very* likely to be NFS-exported in a NIS/NFS-server
environment. So it should not be used for host specific
data anyway. You suggest this yourself, to use /etc/local instead
of /usr/local/etc. What would be the disadvantages if we used
/etc/local by default (on machines in an nfs-less environment) ?

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Sebastian Lederer
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