Re: configuration file placement

1999-02-01 Thread Mark Brown
On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 03:35:06PM -0500, Shaleh wrote: > On 31-Jan-99 John Travers wrote: > > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in > > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can > > I > You may have to edit the program's cod

Always in /etc? (was RE: configuration file placement)

1999-02-01 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Shaleh wrote: > Personally I do not think EVERY package belongs in /etc. Sytem control, > sure. > But small things, no. I am aware of the current policy, but I think a strict > "everything goes here" is bound to have problems. I disagree. One of the good things about De

Re: configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread Carey Evans
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Personally I do not think EVERY package belongs in /etc. Sytem control, > sure. > But small things, no. I am aware of the current policy, but I think a strict > "everything goes here" is bound to have problems. IMHO, I should be able to NFS-mount /usr read

Re: configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread John Hasler
John Travers wrote: > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I > make the configuration file and example go to /etc/packagename... but leave > the pixmap in the /usr/share... directory?

RE: configuration file placement

1999-01-31 Thread Shaleh
On 31-Jan-99 John Travers wrote: > The program I am packaging defaults to putting its configuration files in > /usr/share/packagename/... along with an example file and a pixmap. How can I > make the configuration file and example go to /etc/packagename... but leave > the pixmap in the /usr/share.