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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