Re: GNOME universe
Montreal Tue Mar 16 16:32:55 1999
Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Navindra Umanee wrote:
>
> > Montreal Tue Mar 16 03:36:37 1999
> >
> > Jules Bean <jmlb2@hermes.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> > > FWIW, /usr/local/etc makes some sense, and I can see why people use it.
> > > Therefore, when you ./configure --prefix=/usr you have to remember to
> > > --sysconfdir=/etc.
> >
> > Why not --sysconfdir=/etc/gnome ?
>
> Why not put all applications linked to Xaw in /etc/xaw? Why not put all
> perl based applications in /etc/perl? Why not...
Why not put Fvwm2 files in /etc/X11/fvwm2/ or GTK+ files in /etc/gtk/
or GNUStep files in /etc/GNUStep/. Oops, you do that already. Yet
what is this meaningless paper.config doing in /etc/?
> Because we have a file hierarchy specification, and we attempt to conform
> to it.
The FHS doesn't say you can't arrange your config files
hierarchically or if it does, it should be shunned.
-N.
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