hi david, On Tue, Aug 15, 2006 at 08:03:02AM -0400, David Bruce wrote: > 1. Would it be impolite for the makefile for my program to simply go ahead > and create /usr/local/etc? i don't think it would be appropriate for a debian package to ship a /usr/local/etc directory, since configuration for debian packages should go in /etc. if we're talking about downloaded and locally compiled 3rd party software, many of such projects do create such a directory (autofoo using programs with take a --prefix, for example). it's the admin's decision on whether to place configuration for such programs in this directory, or whether to modify the program to place the configuration elsewhere. > 2. Shouldn't Debian systems already have this directory to be FHS-compliant? the point of /usr/local is that it's a directory under which the admin can (in addition to other things), put in plugins/libraries/programs that override what might otherwise be a default behaviour of the packaged software. there's no point in providing a place for them to override configuration settings, since they are the ones providing the configuration in the first place. sean
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