* martin f krafft (madduck@debian.org) wrote: > also sprach Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> [2006.10.31.1948 +0100]: > > cat /my/favorite/editor >> /etc/alternatives/vi > > alternatives are surely an exception, don't you think? > > > cat /the/best/dictionary >> /etc/dictionaries-common/words > > I don't see the reason why /etc/dictionaries-common/words should be > a symlink either. The right way to solve this would be to use > alternatives and provide a second file to which a user can add > additional words. I'm truely unimpressed with the "users can't handle symlinks" argument. There are other cases where symlinks in /etc have been used to capture information (sendmail and/or SASL being another I've dealt with in the past, also vservers) and in general I don't think there's anything wrong with it. In all of these cases the files pointed to are not intended to be modified but what file is used can be configured. I believe the certificates are exactly this way (and, really, are quite close to the alternatives setup). Enjoy, Stephen
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