Manoj Srivastava wrote: > In that case, why should the defaults not be in > /var/lib/defaults, or /usr/lib/defaults. and even > /usr/share/defaults? > > I would not like to break the invariant that files under /etc > are under the users control, and user input is preserved. Agreed. However, if I'd known how bds used /etc/defaults, I would not have originally proposed the directory have that name. We *could* move it to /etc/init.config/ or something. However, I also like the concept of having a /usr/share/defaults (or /lib/defaults or whatever) that has the big crufty files I rarely edit (/etc/pcmcia/*.opts, for instance), and having things arranged so that when I do need to override them I copy them to somewhere in /etc and modify. Maes for smaller simplere /etc and maybe smaller root filesystems. No reason not to do both. -- see shy jo
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