[Bug locale/22357] iconv configuration should be in /etc

["carlos at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22357

--- Comment #2 from Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com> ---
(In reply to joseph@codesourcery.com from comment #1)
> I don't think it's configuration data - I'd consider it to be code that 
> simply happens to be in a textual format, not something for which any 
> local modifications by the administrator should be supported.  As such, 
> /usr is a proper location for it.

... but on an s390x system you have hardware accelerated modules which you may
wish, as a system administrator, to disable or enable for a number of reasons.
So there are aspects of the file that users and administrators may wish to
change.

Moving gconv-modules to /etc also only works for the "default" configuration
file, in all other cases the non-default directories need their own
gconv-modules otherwise those paths won't be considered valid paths specified
in the GCONV_PATH env var. User installed gconv-modules could be symlinks to
/etc/gconv-modules.d/* files and we could recommend that in the manual (which
currently talks briefly about gconv-modules).

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