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Date:      Tue, 30 Apr 1996 10:20:05 +0000
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.tfs.com>
To:        Paul Richards <p.richards@elsevier.co.uk>
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:  <3285.830859605@critter.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 30 Apr 1996 11:10:11 %2B0100." <199604301010.LAA17456@cadair.elsevier.co.uk> 

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> > > /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?

Yes, host independent, but not architecture independent...

/etc/rc for instance has to be architecture dependent to initialize
weird HW...

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