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Date:      Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:01:48 -0700 (PDT)
From:      "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
To:        paul@freebsd.org
Cc:        wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig
Message-ID:  <199507261901.MAA26634@gndrsh.aac.dev.com>
In-Reply-To: <199507261817.TAA29188@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jul 26, 95 07:17:17 pm

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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. 

The package mechanism went to great pains to allow other locations than
/usr/local for this stuff, fixing that location in an /etc file would
be counter productive to this effort.

I can install all (or almost all) of the packages in /opt if I so choose
to.

-- 
Rod Grimes                                      rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com
Accurate Automation Company                 Reliable computers for FreeBSD



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