Re: ports automatically sticking stuff in /etc

On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 11:38:07PM -0500, Jolan Luff wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 04:47:33AM +0100, Anil Madhavapeddy wrote:

I'm actually quite happy with SYSCONFDIR pointing to /etc - most ports with multiple config files are nice about sticking themselves in a subdir.

A wrapper script would allow a knob to install default config files or not (or just check for a bulk build in progress and not do it then).

I'd like just to set something in the Makefile to point out which files are destined for SYSCONFDIR, rather than have a whole bunch of INSTALL scripts as we do at the moment.

> I don't really see the need for a script. We can just change the

I'm also not against the idea of /etc/ports.

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