Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 14:42:56 +0300 From: Dmitry Sivachenko <demon@FreeBSD.org> To: Alexander Nedotsukov <bland@FreeBSD.org> Cc: gnome@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: libsml2 & libxslt config files location Message-ID: <20031222114256.GA14823@fling-wing.demos.su> In-Reply-To: <3FE6D3DD.6060209@FreeBSD.org> References: <20031222094622.GA99206@fling-wing.demos.su> <3FE6D3DD.6060209@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:22:05PM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote: > Dmitry, > > Dmitry Sivachenko wrote: > > >Hello! > > > >Why libxml2 and libxslt ports install xml2Conf.sh and xsltConf.sh files in > >$PREFIX/etc? /etc directory is for files which user is supposed to edit > >to adjust program behaviour. These files does not contain anything to > >edit. Probably they should be install either in $PREFIX/bin or > >$PREFIX/share/... ? > > > >What do people think? > > > I think your current assumption of /etc directory purpose is wrong. > It's personal port preference to install these files info confexecdir. On > Linux this usually lib/ but on FreeBSD we have different policy and etc/ > looks like apropriate place. In short I do not see any hier(7) violation > here. > Well, I do not talk about any hier(7) violation here. The situation is as follows: we have several chroot's sharing common /usr/, except /usr/local/etc, which holds custom config files. All these files satisfy the following statement: We can update corresponding packages without touching files in /usr/local/etc. These two files are the only exception: they cantain hardcoded version number of libxml2 and libxslt. It would be really nice to move them to some other place. Since their purpose matches gtk12-config closely, I propose /usr/local/bin for them.
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