Re: OK to use /etc/default for non-init script default data?
On Tue, Jun 05, 2001 at 08:43:56AM +0200, Marc Haber wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2001 10:12:19 +0100, Julian Gilbey
> <J.D.Gilbey@qmw.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Why not just /etc/foorc or /etc/foo.conf or something like that?
>
> Because the conffile is not a "real" conffile, but rather a shell
> script being sourced in, and /etc/foo.conf will probably suggest that
> this conffile is an upstream feature.
When you say "shell script", do you mean that it's a wrapper script,
or just a list of settings of the form "VAR=value"? If you want to
make it clear that it's a Debian-specific thing, surely you can put a
note to that effect at the top of the file? And if it's a wrapper
script, wouldn't it be a lot better to have the wrapper in /usr/bin,
with the real program called something like foo.real, and just the
variable settings in /etc? It's just that /etc is where people are
likely to look....
Julian
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