Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 19:40:25 -0400 From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Subject: Re: root only: (was Re: comments on this change please.) Message-ID: <20300.846114025@orion.webspan.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 24 Oct 1996 01:08:29 %2B0200." <199610232308.BAA29153@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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J Wunsch wrote in message ID <199610232308.BAA29153@uriah.heep.sax.de>: > However, you cannot expect us to tailor the default configuration just > for your 250+ machines lab. I do not expect the default configuration > to include X11, and start xdm either, just only because it's what _i_ > need most after installing FreeBSD. Whatever happens with this thread, I hereby nominate Messer Terry Lambert to answer any/all questions from irriated users who find that their configuration files are no longer in /etc, where they have been for several years. I, for one, don't care how well we document it, because I know that people DO NOT READ THE !$*&! DOCUMENTATION, and prefer e-mailing daft questions. So I nominate terry@lambert.org for the post of `where did my /etc files go' answerer. Now do you see why it shouldn't be moved Terry? It may be the `architecturally pure and clean' (or however you spell that word) thing to do, but we also have to operate on the principle of least surprise here ... people aren't going to expect /etc to suddenly become /var/conf or something. I know I, for one, object to it being moved ... it's become ingrained into my head to look in /etc or /usr/local/etc, and I've only been working with unix for 5 years or so. I'd feel real sorry for people who have been working with unix for longer. Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info
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