Re: Installing VistA
On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> > I can't see a reason why this should not go into /usr/{lib,share}/{gtm,vista}
> > and these environment variables to /etc/{gtm,vista}.conf
> Have you really taken a look yet ?
No. I'm just guessing from experience - which might be wrong.
> > hidden anywhere under /usr/local/*. Damn, configuration belongs to /etc ... :)
> Well, PDP(11) et al somewhat predates Linux/Debian. I'd rather tread
> lightly on religious issues... I'll bet the config location
> is hardcoded deeply inside some obscure module which, however,
> will inevitable get invoked by your first large-scale
> customer.
Symlinks to /etc/ normallly do a good job in other packages of this type.
> Also, 10 years from now people will say "Why the h*
> did they not save config information in the Right Place
> (cfg://host.config.global.net/user/app/user/*) ?!?" So they go
> out and change GnuMed to take advantage of that. And I'll bet
> you there's "/etc/gnumed/" going to be hardcoded somewhere far
> far inside.
Which would not be that worse because it is one single place which
could be symlinked or even beamed (if this is some kind of future
transportation of information) to the right place (TM).
Kind regards
Andreas.
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