On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, era eriksson wrote: > --- 5823,5835 ---- > <p> > Any configuration files created or used by your package > must reside in <tt>/etc</tt>. If there are several you > ! should create a subdirectory of <tt>/etc</tt> > named after your package.</p> I object to this change. It changes policy way too much. Given that we also have packages that need to scatter files throughout /etc SUB-directories, it is an incomplete change anyway. > <p> > If your package creates or uses configuration files > outside of <tt>/etc</tt>, and it is not feasible to modify > ! the package to use the <tt>/etc</tt>, you must still put > the files in <tt>/etc</tt> and create symbolic links to > those files from the location that the package > requires.</p> I second this change. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh
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