Re: Add vendor configuration directory installation
"Alfred M. Szmidt" <[email protected]> Tue, 07 Feb 2023 15:40:00 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.sysutils.autoconf.patches,gmane.comp.gnu.standards |
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On 2023-02-06 08:30, Valentin Lefebvre wrote:
> This patch add a new autoconf argument that allows installation
> into the vendor configuration directory (/usr/etc/). Some linux
> distribution now move system configuration files from /etc to /usr/etc.
> See this ref: [0]....
> [0]https://0pointer.net/blog/projects/stateless.html
I don't see "/usr/etc" in [0]. What I see is /usr/share/etc, i.e.,
$(datarootdir)/etc. It's not clear why the latter name doesn't suffice
for this need, as files in $(datarootdir) are also supplied by the
distro and are read-only.
Or even sysconfdir ("read-only single-machine data") (where it is set
to /usr/share/etc or some other such thing).
This also seems very much specific to systemd based GNU/Linux systems
( https://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.en.html ).