On Fri, Jun 19, 2009 at 12:11:10PM -0500, Mike Watters wrote: > > You want firefox to have all its default configs in /etc? Individually? > > For every machine? > > > > I dooont think sooo.... > > You want global configs for a beast like that. > > Firefox is a different beast, and by default does not store anything in *etc* > the global configs for firefox are stored in .*/share and the "local configs" > are stored in the user's home directory under .mozilla
but it could. And in some ways, it "should". It just doesnt at the moment :-) > > I would say that firefox is not an issue in sharing /opt. > > Software like xpdf, I don't think it matters where the configs are located > since they normally don't change. So, you seem to be agreeing with my premise, that SOME programs are fine in having their configs on the global /opt/csw, when they dont change. > the whole problem here, I believe, is how do we make CSW packages respect both > local configs and global configs without hacking up every piece of software we > package. We simply cant do that for *every* package. more below. > .... > This would solve the issue, although I reiterate this is not the best > solution, > but I am not sure there is a "best solution" with this problem. I believe that is the core truth here. There is no "one size fits all 'best' solution". What we CAN do, is try to make the "best" choice, on a package-by-package basis. with certain guidelines. The most relevant ones being, "treat /opt/csw/* as read-only after install. If something is likely to need significant changing after initial install, then it belongs in /etc/opt/csw or /var/opt/csw" _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers
