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Re: better make a standard for /etc/*/*_not_to_be_run



On Mon, Aug 11, 2003 at 05:12:11PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote:
> Several packages include stuff like this in /etc/default/<packagename>, so 
> it seems there are several existing solutions to this problem. :-)

Yes, but /etc/default/ is totally the wrong directory. default is from
*BSD, where it is used to contain the defaults, not the local config. Other
Linux distributions do not use default, but something like sysconfig.

So: this is neighter common for linux nor the right usage of the dir.

Greetings
Bernd
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