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Re: Why does modules.conf go in /etc, anyway?



Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2002 at 07:15:36PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Jun 2002, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
>>> The file is not intended to be edited. It is generated from
>>> other files. It really doesn't belong in /etc.
>>> Why not put it in /var, where it belongs?
>> Because /var may not be mounted early enough during system boot.

> We could always ask a debconf question about it...

> (Seriously, we could. "Is /var mounted locally?" with a low priority,
> and a default answer based on grep'ing /etc/fstab, followed by a question
> about an alternative location that needs to be looked at by packages
> that run early. Something like:
[...]

I've moved my Debian-Installation from harddisk to harddisk and from
computer to computer at least three times and've done some
repartitioning on the way. Imho this should still be possible without
breaking the system.
              cu andreas
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