Re: [gentoo-dev] Default Ebuild behaviour

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 12:11:49 +0000 "Benjamin Smee (strerror)"
<strerror@gentoo.org> wrote:
| While I understand various developers concerns about cluttering /etc
| (especially embedded), I don't see why this should stop the policy of
| writting ebuilds that work and have expected tools around them.
| Precisely what that constitutes is the real question.

See, you're not really taking into account the cost of sticking files
in /etc. For packages where an etc entry is low cost, it's already
done. For things like bash completion and log rotation, the cost of
installing a file into /etc can be extremely high, so it shouldn't be
forced upon system administrators unless they ask for it. The same goes
for cron entries for packages where the cron part isn't a core
operation.

What would be nice is a ban on .example files in anywhere covered by
CONFIG_PROTECT. We have /usr/share/doc/ for those.

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