From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E01Kc-0005EW-Mu for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 02 Aug 2005 18:17:39 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j72IG3ZT008156; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:16:03 GMT Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j72ICiWK012086 for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2005 18:12:44 GMT Received: from snowdrop.home ([82.41.57.20]) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.6713); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:13:52 +0100 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 19:12:54 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New global USE flag: logrotate Message-ID: <20050802191254.37db1ab3@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <42EFB2EC.6060208@gentoo.org> References: <20050802092201.GB13310@pohl> <42EFA3D9.1030603@gentoo.org> <20050802183330.07d9a458@snowdrop.home> <42EFB2EC.6060208@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.5 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 02 Aug 2005 18:13:52.0343 (UTC) FILETIME=[F00C0670:01C5978D] X-Archives-Salt: b9ad5b09-e87d-4b24-a8a8-83ae1cdaace0 X-Archives-Hash: f1d413807c5174dba46031fce4cb420e On Tue, 02 Aug 2005 10:52:44 -0700 Donnie Berkholz wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | | Files in /etc are expensive in terms of sysadmin time. The only | | things in /etc should be things that are both necessary and likely | | to be modified by a sysadmin. | | So we should stop installing example files, too? Into /etc? Yes. Stick them in /usr/share/doc. If a package needs a file in /etc, try to install a file which is generally suitable for most people with the correct name. It's Gentoo policy (yup, this is one of the few things we have 'real' policy about) that packages should, where possible, work 'out of the box'. We get this by installing a best attempt at a configuration file into the correct location. Cluttering up a CONFIG_PROTECTed area with bogus .example files merely makes more work for the end user. -- Ciaran McCreesh -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list