Re: The purpose of /etc/default ?

2006-02-12 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 06:29:40PM +0200, Jari Aalto wrote: The package contributors guide http://cygwin.com/setup.html Is silent about /etc/defaults. As is FHS 2.3. I don't even see any discussion of /etc/defaults on the FHS discussion list. /usr/share/foo/ may be a more

Re: The purpose of /etc/default ?

2006-02-12 Thread Jari Aalto
Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does /etc/defaults mean under Cygwin? This should be documented in the package contributors guide as well. In debian, /etc/default/ is a directory of mostly empty (or very small) files. The way it is meant to work is that each

Re: The purpose of /etc/default ?

2006-02-12 Thread Jari Aalto
Brian Dessent [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jari Aalto wrote: Would it be better to reserve whole /etc off limits and make it user's territory. Perhaps the defaults would be better stored under the individual packages, like in /share/package/defaults Or along with the documentation?