On Wednesday, July 17, 2013 8:39:06 PM UTC-4, Stuart Rackham wrote: > > Hi Brian > > On 16/07/13 05:24, [email protected] <javascript:> wrote: > > I notice that, by default, AsciiDoc installs most of its configuration, > > javascript and stylesheet files into sysconfdir or /etc/asciidoc. This > > seems an unusual place to store project private information. Most > > projects following the LSB (Linux Standards Base) install their project > > private data files to a directory in /usr/share. > I just looked at those files in Debian, which is very strict on which files go to where, and notice that images, icons and javascripts are under /usr/share, while filters, stylesheets, xsl etc are under /etc/asciidoc.
> Is there any benefit or reason why AsciiDoc tends to want to install > > files to /etc/asciidoc? Would there be any problems if such files were > > installed to /usr/share instead? > > I can't think of any off the top of my head -- it's an historical > anachronism that over a decade ago I choose sysconfdir (/etc). > The "modern" approach is put all defaults under /usr/share, but all user customization under /etc, right? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "asciidoc" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/asciidoc. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
