Re: /etc getting bigger
>>>>> "Eray" == Eray Ozkural (exa) <erayo@cs.bilkent.edu.tr> writes:
Eray> As my root partition is filling up, I wonder why sysconfdir
Eray> has to be /etc and not /usr/etc for programs where prefix is
Eray> /usr. Wouldn't that be more compliant with GNU build
Eray> conventions? Just out of curiosity.
Yes, sort of. However, /usr is a special prefix; people expect
software installed there to have configuration data in /etc. There
used to be /usr/etc in the BSD 4.3 days and it was generally regarded
as a bad idea. I don't think it included any data though.
Note that for HURD, FSF argues that /usr shouldn't exist (or is a
symlink). Personally I think they are on crack--they haven't
justified the confusion created by the change.
You should make sure that no packages are sticking stuff that should
go in datadir in /etc.
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