On Sun, Mar 20, 2011 at 08:36:35PM -0400, Brad wrote:
> >It will solve things, but we have to design/document SYSCONFDIR completely.
> >I vote for it to be readonly and not changed by users anywhere...
> >There might be need for a port-dependent config dir that would be derived
> >from SYSCONFDIR.
> >
> >How to name it ?
>
> It would make more sense to have a variable name such as CONFDIR and
> set it to /etc which is then readonly. Allow SYSCONFDIR to be
> overridden as it is now for ports that want the config files in a
> subdir of CONFDIR.
>
> CONFDIR= /etc
> SYSCONFDIR?= ${CONFDIR}
>
> .e.g. for net/powerdns
>
> SYSCONFDIR= ${CONFDIR}/pdns
>
> Since you want --sysconfdir passed to autoconf anyway and it already
> is. This makes it simpler and cleaner.
Yes, I think this is the most reasonable approach.
Anyone disagree with those names ?
