From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 26 13:43:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (whizzo.TransSys.COM [144.202.42.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E27DE37B400 for ; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 13:42:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from whizzo.transsys.com (localhost.transsys.com [127.0.0.1]) by whizzo.transsys.com (8.11.1/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f0QLgaO69945; Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:42:36 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from louie@whizzo.transsys.com) Message-Id: <200101262142.f0QLgaO69945@whizzo.transsys.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.2 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 To: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" Cc: Garrett Wollman , current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Image-URL: http://www.transsys.com/louie/images/louie-mail.jpg From: "Louis A. Mamakos" Subject: Re: patch for test: /etc/shells -> /usr/local/etc/shells References: <20010126220820.2fa3265a.steveo@eircom.net> <200101262121.QAA02884@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <20010126223412.7eba6913.steveo@eircom.net> In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:34:12 +0100." <20010126223412.7eba6913.steveo@eircom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:42:36 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Perhaps /etc/shells is the least of all evils here. I think there's way too much paranoia about software systems putting stuff into /etc. It intended to contain host-specific configuration data I think there's value in having this configuration data in one or very few places so you're not chasing stuff all over the file system. I think that /etc/X11 which came along with the XFree86 4 port is a step in the right direction, too. Frankly, I'd rather have an /etc/local than /usr/local/etc for that sort configuration data so that it's in one place, and backed up along with the rest of the hosts's configuration. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message