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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, phk@critter.tfs.com
Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request)
Cc: current@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de
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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