On Wed, Oct 06, 1999 at 05:30:13AM -0700, Steve Bowman wrote: > > BTW, I *like* the idea of moving stuff out of /etc to /usr/etc or > maybe /usr/local/etc. It's not the /etc is too big, it's too messy. > I just think that stuff in /bin and /sbin set an upper bound on what > can be moved without breaking things. >
Sorry to reply to my own post, but I think I overstated my case a little bit on two counts.... First, I should have said *risk* of breaking things. Of course they'll work fine normally. Second, the search I did makes an unstated assumption since it was done by package. There may be packages that have multiple binaries and the conffiles are used by binaries in /usr/bin or /usr/sbin and not even used by the binaries in /bin or /sbin. I don't have an easy answer for how to winnow out unneeded conffiles to remove this assumption. Probably case-by-case examination is needed. Regards, Steve Bowman