Date: Sat, 23 Aug 2008 21:48:28 -0400 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Why /usr/local/etc??? Message-ID: <18608.48620.743733.93176@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080824012442.GA46150@thought.org> References: <20080824012442.GA46150@thought.org>
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Gary Kline writes: > This may have been covered too-often before, buy why can't > *everything* related to /etc hang off "/etc"? I can create a > symlink in /etc to /usr/local/etc named "loc" or "local". > Thing is, why this isn't done by default? Very short version: /etc = stuff installed by FreeBSD /usr/local/ete = stuff installed by third-party applications The exception is the _ENABLE variables for those third-party applications, which go in /etc/rc.conf so they can be started at system boot. Robert Huff
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