From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 26 12:02:04 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id MAA12127 for current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:02:04 -0700 Received: from gndrsh.aac.dev.com (gndrsh.aac.dev.com [198.145.92.241]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id MAA12110 ; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:01:57 -0700 Received: (from rgrimes@localhost) by gndrsh.aac.dev.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id MAA26634; Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:01:48 -0700 From: "Rodney W. Grimes" Message-Id: <199507261901.MAA26634@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig To: paul@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 12:01:48 -0700 (PDT) Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199507261817.TAA29188@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jul 26, 95 07:17:17 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 894 Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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