Ken Moffat wrote:
> On my partial-gnome installation (apart from the gnome2 packages
> previously mentioned, I built gcalctool, gucharmap,
> epiphany{,-extensions}, gstreamer/plugins, totem, yelp from 3.2 -
> plus their many required dependencies) I have the following
> directories in /etc/gnome:
>
> bonobo-activation, dbus-1, gconf, gnome-vfs-2.0, profile.d, sound,
> xdg. These are not just conf,desktop,xml files - there are also
> schemas and other odds and sods. But as long as each goes into a
> directory, what does it matter ? Using /etc rather than /etc/gnome
> looks much more straightforward. Also, if you are a gnome user
> (i.e. a much fuller gnome than I build), what does it gain you by
> putting all these directories into /etc/gnome instead of /etc ?
>
> I do have *one* file in /etc/gnome : gnome-vfs-mime-magic from
> gnome-mime-data (I installed that for totem, if I recall correctly).
> Since there are other packages which dump files straight into /etc
> (even e2fsprogs in lfs itself) I don't see this as a problem.
>
> Having said that, I've noticed that distros such as gentoo put the
> dhclient files in a directory (conf, -exit-hooks) but BLFS has
> always been happy to drop these into /etc so I haven't felt any
> overwhelming urge to alter the client script so that it would find
> the moved hooks.
My only concern is to keep something like the /etc directory at a
reasonable number of entries. Right now I have 90. Compare that to
ubuntu that has 217 or RHEL with 199. I think of the /etc directory as
a place where I may need to browse to figure out a file to update.
Something like php.ini is OK because it is only one file. A few more is
not a problem, but I think 200 is too many. It just makes sense to me
to group related functionality together.
-- Bruce
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