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On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:52:44 -0700 Donnie Berkholz |
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<spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| | Files in /etc are expensive in terms of sysadmin time. The only |
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| | things in /etc should be things that are both necessary and likely |
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| | to be modified by a sysadmin. |
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| So we should stop installing example files, too? |
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Into /etc? Yes. Stick them in /usr/share/doc. If a package needs a file |
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in /etc, try to install a file which is generally suitable for most |
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people with the correct name. |
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It's Gentoo policy (yup, this is one of the few things we have 'real' |
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policy about) that packages should, where possible, work 'out of the |
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box'. We get this by installing a best attempt at a configuration file |
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into the correct location. Cluttering up a CONFIG_PROTECTed area with |
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bogus .example files merely makes more work for the end user. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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