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Re: [PATCH] Install config files
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, ams at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 10:02:31 +1000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install config files
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Ping.
On 11/02/14 14:34, Allan McRae wrote:
> On 09/02/14 07:06, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Saturday, February 08, 2014 11:08:45 Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>>> I find it quite iffy when `make install' in any source tree starts
>>> touching anything in SYSCONFDIR...
>>
>> this is par for the course when it comes to packaging
>
> Precisely. For all the packages I handle in Arch Linux, glibc is really
> an outlier in terms of requiring its configuration files to be manually
> installed.
>
> Does anyone really do a "make install" onto the root of their system anyway?
If there really is an issue about installing in /etc, perhaps we could
have the relevant programs read config files from
/usr/lib/glibc/foo.conf and that being overridden by /etc/foo.conf as
seems to becoming more common these days.
Allan