It's been rumoured that Dave Peticolas said:
> Anyway, in looking into these things, I noticed
> that we have a config variable GNC_CONFIGDIR
> which we really aren't using. There is a note
> in Makefile.in to the effect that it ends up
> being /etc/gnucash and that this is a bad place
> to put config files. Why is that? Seems like
> a fine place to put config files.
because
1) on a multi-user system ....
2) which is why global config files in the ~/.gnucash directory
should over-ride anything in /etc
3) /etc is a kind-of old-fashioned place to put global config files.
A slightly newer-fangled place is /usr/share/gnucash ...
The reason for this is that /usr/share/... can be easily NFS
mounted by a sysadmin managing hundreds of machines, while
/etc cannot be (because boot info is in /etc).
--linas
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