Date: Sun, 6 Aug 1995 22:00:51 +0000 (WET DST) From: "Alexis Yushin" <alexis@unicorn.ww.net> To: mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray) Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Location of config files... Message-ID: <199508061800.WAA00286@unicorn.ww.net> In-Reply-To: <199508061330.PAA10479@grumble.grondar.za> from "Mark Murray" at Aug 6, 95 03:30:46 pm
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Once Mark Murray wrote: >Hi > >It is slightly irritating to me that ports put their user-configurable >files in /usr/local/etc instead of /etc. > >The one that specifically springs to mind is TCP Wrappers. > >What is the reason for this, and is there any objection to moving this >back to /etc? Hello, don't say I've got you :-) A good idea is to keep config files in /etc, using symlinks to link /usr/local/etc/* with /etc/* Then actual data will reside in /etc, but ports which usually uses $DESTDIR or something like this won't cause a problem. Moreover you can rdist /usr/loca -> ... without thinking about configs. The links will be rdisted but not thee actual data, which depends on an actual host. alexis -- Live fast -- die young
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