Date: Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:11 +0100 (BST) From: Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk> To: phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp) Cc: wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de, bde@zeta.org.au, jkh@time.cdrom.com, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Files installed to /etc, (was: review request) Message-ID: <199604301010.LAA17456@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <2657.830843559@critter.tfs.com> from "Poul-Henning Kamp" at Apr 30, 96 05:52:39 am
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In reply to Poul-Henning Kamp who said > > > >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 ? > > > > > >[*] could be something like > > [...] > > > something else which I didn't think of. > > > > /usr/share/etc > > That would be obviously wrong. It is >not< shareable, now even inside > the same architecture. Why isn't it? Until it's edited and installed in /etc it should be just a template that would be host independant and entirely shareable? -- Paul Richards. Originative Solutions Ltd. (Netcraft Ltd. contractor) Elsevier Science TIS online journal project. Email: p.richards@elsevier.co.uk Phone: 0370 462071 (Mobile), +44 (0)1865 843155
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