Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:34:12 +0100 From: "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> To: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: patch for test: /etc/shells -> /usr/local/etc/shells Message-ID: <20010126223412.7eba6913.steveo@eircom.net> In-Reply-To: <200101262121.QAA02884@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> References: <20010126220820.2fa3265a.steveo@eircom.net> <200101262121.QAA02884@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
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On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 16:21:01 -0500 (EST) Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> wrote: GW> <<On Fri, 26 Jan 2001 22:08:20 +0100, "Steve O'Hara-Smith" <steveo@eircom.net> said: GW> GW> > The patch below (against 4-stable but it will probably apply easily GW> > to -current) moves /etc/shells to /usr/local/etc/shells. GW> GW> Bad idea. No base component (never mind libc!) should hard-code a GW> pathname in /usr/local. I'll consider it flamed to death then :) It was intended to prevent port installs having to write in /etc without having to change libc/gen, roken and sendmail which I rather suspect is also a bad thing to do. Perhaps /etc/shells is the least of all evils here. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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