Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 11:04:17 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> To: paul@freebsd.org Cc: wollman@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Knobs in /etc/sysconfig Message-ID: <199507261804.LAA25920@gndrsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199507261528.QAA16201@server.netcraft.co.uk> from "Paul Richards" at Jul 26, 95 04:28:23 pm
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> > In reply to Garrett Wollman who said > > > > <<On Mon, 24 Jul 1995 20:21:04 -0700, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> said: > > > > I don't like the idea of /etc/sysconfig.local as a dumping-ground for > > third-party software configuration options. Either there should be a > > third-party section in the real /etc/sysconfig, or there should be a > > separate config file for each service (/etc/rc.local.d/$service.cf?). > > I lean towards the former. > > Anything wrong with /usr/local/etc ? I don't like third party > packages touching /etc period. Yes, there is something wrong with /usr/local/etc, that would be imposing a structure on one place (/usr/local) we said we would absolutely not do that to in the base system. I don't like third party packages touching _anything_ in the base system, and we have gone to a lot of work to minimize it. Now we just need to cross the last few hurdles. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation Company Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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