Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 07:31:12 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com Cc: current@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) Message-ID: <199604292131.HAA00841@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Isn't the problem here that all of these things should be put in another >directory, from which the root can copy them to /etc if he wants to ? >The only two cases in which we actually populate /etc are: > a) initial install or upgrade. > b) explicit command from root. >How about making all installs into /etc end up in /usr[*]etc instead, >and then have one target in a makefile somewhere that would wack everything >from there to /etc, if that is what the "root" wants ? Root could copy from /usr/[*]etc, but install should install /usr/[*]etc and /etc separately to get the install semantics right. >[*] could be something like > / except that the historial luggage of /usr/etc is bad. :-). >The cost would be 416 Kb in the /usr filesystem, and one benefit would Less than half that without *.db and `magic'. Bruce
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