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



>>"Anthony" == Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> writes:

 Anthony> Except we've already established that's /not/ particularly
 Anthony> sane: doing that we end up with random programs overwriting
 Anthony> the admin's settings in ways that irritate said
 Anthony> admin. Creating a new area that's legit for such random
 Anthony> changes, will solve that problem, and using symlinks to
 Anthony> indicate whether that area should be used or not is both
 Anthony> efficient and fairly obvious.

	I like this idea a lot. However, I would like to propose
 /etc/auto/ rather than /var/some/place as the default option for
 these files, and note in policy that /etc/auto/ has files that are
 automatically updated, and admins ought not to have any expectations
 of local changes being preserved there.

	manoj
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