On Mon, 9 Jan 2012, Ken Moffat wrote:
On Sun, Jan 08, 2012 at 10:01:21PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
4. I don't really like /etc for the /etc/libnl/{pktloc,classid} files.
that's not the kind of thing a user would change, especially with an
editor. I'd suggest /var/lib.
Why do you think users should expect to change anything in /etc ?
[...]
On a day-to-day basis, I don't edit anything in /etc.
Well, I'm not sure whether this was the original intention, but to me this
kind of distinction does make sense. Maybe not from the perspective of a
user of a *LFS system, but for a user of *LFS, i.e. a system
builder/maintainer. Whenever a system is not (yet) behaving the way I
want, I do consider changing files in /etc. I would hardly ever consider
changing files in /var/lib. Personally, I do not actually care about libnl
at all, but if those config files are not meant to be edited by people
other than libnl maintainers, I'd expect to find them in /var/lib instead
of polluting /etc...
Regards,
Uwe
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