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Re: [Cooker] Re: /etc/X11 moved to /usr/share/X11

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski

2008-05-14

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Em Wednesday 14 May 2008 15:14:12 Wanderlei Antonio Cavassin escreveu:
> Em Wed, May 14, 2008 at 07:21:00PM +0200, Olivier Blin escreveu:
> > Paulo Cesar Pereira de Andrade <pcpa@(protected):
> > >> I'm strongly against moving configuration files such as xorg.conf into
> > >> /usr/share/X11. This is in a clear violation of FHS and our general
> > >> policy. There should be *no* configuration files under /usr.
> > >
> > > I see the reasoning on /etc/X11/xorg.conf and /etc/X11/fs/config.
> > > Everything else, while being a "system wide default configuration
> > > file", is most likely to never be changed, or there is an alternative
> > > for a per user customization file.
> >
> > While I agree that some scripts are not configuration files and could
> > be moved to /usr/share/X11 (xinit.d/*, xsetup.d/*), we still want the
> > system administrator to be able to add more scripts in /etc/X11, like
> > Pixel points out.
> > It's also true for /etc/X11/wmsession.d/, where an admin might want to
> > add more sessions, without messing with /usr
>
> Paulo, we have to choose ;)
> It's better to keep some data in /etc than moving config stuff
> to /usr.

+1
I also don't see the point of moving to /usr, even if some files are static,
this is going backwards and wrong because of the config files/scripts/etc...

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> Cavassin

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