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Date:      Thu, 28 Nov 1996 10:40:13 +0100 (MET)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        mcgovern@spoon.beta.com (Brian J. McGovern)
Subject:   Re: /usr/local/etc/*.d...
Message-ID:  <199611280940.KAA01121@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199611280347.WAA00626@spoon.beta.com> from "Brian J. McGovern" at "Nov 27, 96 10:47:51 pm"

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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/<something> 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. ;-)



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