Re: Question on conf files
On Sat, Jul 04, 1998 at 01:25:03AM +0100, Jules Bean wrote:
> --On Fri, Jul 3, 1998 7:09 pm -0500 "Rob Browning" <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
> wrote:
> In particular, as people have mentioned before, it is important that /usr
> can be considered read-only after install. Although current dpkg styles do
> not take advantage of this fact, future ones will.
>
> A 'data file' which the user should never (in normal use) need to modify can
> happily live in /usr. A configuration file which, in normal use of the
> package, might be modified by the administrator, should be in /etc.
>
If this true, then we must move a lot of files from /var/lists/*, /var/named
(and more?) to /etc/<package>/
Grisu
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