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Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?



Martin Schulze writes ("Re: /usr/etc and /usr/local/etc?"):
>Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote:
>> Just a quick inquiry --
>> 
>>   Why is it that we exclude /usr/etc from our distribution? FHS and FSSTND
>
>Because configuration belongs to /etc.  Period.

That, and I didn't see /usr/etc listed in the FHS 2.0.  It *was* in
the FSSTND.

Config files are, by their nature, host-specific, and should not be in
/usr

-- 
Richard W Kaszeta 			PhD. Candidate and Sysadmin
bofh@me.umn.edu				University of MN, ME Dept
http://www.menet.umn.edu/~kaszeta


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