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Date:      Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:44:16 +1100
From:      "Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nsw.bigpond.net.au>
To:        Thomas Stromberg <tstromberg@rtci.com>
Cc:        Yoshinobu Inoue <shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp>, freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Time for an /etc/ipv6 directory? (restructure /etc?)
Message-ID:  <20000316094416.A84559@gurney.reilly.home>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.20.0003151241400.5932-100000@barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com>
References:  <20000315130310N.shin@nd.net.fujitsu.co.jp> <Pine.GSO.4.20.0003151241400.5932-100000@barracuda.aquarium.rtci.com>

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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 01:09:23PM -0500, Thomas Stromberg wrote:
> Should we go the same route? Should we symlink our /etc directory to all
> hell and back, or screw backwards compatibility? What is our
> direction. I'm not advocating any of the ideas above, I just want to give
> everyone a little food for thought. Many questions need to be answered. 

I think that symlink farms are a bad idea, and in this case they
defeat the only purpose that increasing the depth of the /etc
hierarchy could serve.

> Directory organization is something which is always a topic for argument,
> because everyone seems to have their own idea and be passionate about
> it. As far as myself, I don't really care, as long as /etc is only for
> config files :0  

I'd like to see /etc eventually be replaced by a portal file system
accessing a configuration database (maybe in LDAP).  But I'm just
saying that to be argumentative.

-- 
Andrew




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