On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:08:10PM +0000, Dermot McCluskey wrote:

> By default, lynx installs it's config files in /usr/local/etc/ which I
> changed to /usr/share/$PKGNAME/ following some examples like autoconf and
> gnobots2.
>
> Should I be putting the config files in /etc/, or /etc/$PKGNAME/?

On my gentoo box, I have /etc/lynx.lss and /etc/lynx.cfg.  You might check
to see what Ubuntu and Fedora do.

The reason to put these in /etc is that /usr is often mounted read-only
(like in a zone), making it either impossible or at least a real pain to
modify them.

Danek

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