Greg A. Woods writes:
> If one really wants to use NFS or whatever to share configuration files
> then at least they should be put in some subdirectory with a name like
> "siteconf" or "sitewide_etc"
> In any case if "sysconfdir" means what it says, i.e. "system
> configuration directory", then it must default to /etc (i.e. without
> $(prefix) prepended) on any unix or unix-like system that I know of.
The file system standard says that $(sysconfdir) is for single-host
read-only data and that $(datadir) is for shareable read-only data. So if
you have single-host configuration files then you put them in
$(sysconfdir), if you have shareable configuration files then you put them
in $(datadir).
What you are saying, that configuration files must be in "/etc"
unconditionally, is IMHO exactly the totally wrong thing to do, and
something that the GNU file system fortunately does away with.
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