From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Nov 28 02:03:09 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id CAA17936 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 02:03:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA17878 for ; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 02:02:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA15361; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:59:59 +0100 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA16488; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:59:58 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.8.2/8.6.9) id KAA01121; Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:40:13 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199611280940.KAA01121@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: /usr/local/etc/*.d... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:40:13 +0100 (MET) Cc: mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de In-Reply-To: <199611280347.WAA00626@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "Nov 27, 96 10:47:51 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Brian J. McGovern wrote: > Wouldn't it make more sense to stick it under /etc somplace, rather than in > /usr/local/etc (which, I know, has always been a rather stupid name for a > directory you're most likely going to export?), so its not a "common place". Your environment is a typical case where you best move out the entire /usr/local/etc e.g. under /etc/local, and put a symlink for it there. However, ports&packages policy is to _not_ touch parts of the base system, so /etc/ is tabu for them. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)