Re: RC bug: symlinks in /etc

[Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>]

Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> writes:

> Personally I'd prefer installing the package's patterns to
> /usr/share/l7-protocols. Patterns installed from source could go to
> /usr/local/share/l7-protocols. Patterns created by the sysadmin could
> be stored in /etc/l7-protocols/patterns.d (or similar) and the package
> shouldn't store any symlinks there. That might require getting some
> patches upstream though. The loading order would be /usr/share
> /usr/local /etc so that the sysadmin dirs override the package.

That only works if one never has to remove a pattern or if there is a
simple way to replace a pattern with a dummy.

Apart from that: +1.

Mfg
        Goswin