Re: HTML format documentation

[Richard Stallman]

    So prefix=/usr leads to syconfidir=/etc, but prefix=/usr/gnu (not my
    idea) leads to sysconfdir=/usr/gnu/config? Ugh.

This nonuniformity is precisely the intent.  When prefix is a
subdirectory of /usr, such as /usr/local, people are likely to be
unhappy with installing the configuration files into /etc.
But when prefix is /usr, that means the programs are being installed
as first-class citizens and their config files ought to go in /etc.