Re: Preparing new distribution...

[Maurits van de Kamp <maurits@bassment.demon.nl>]

On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Thomas Binder wrote:

> > > would you like to have /etc in your PATH?)
> > 
> > You're confusing /usr/etc with /etc. :)
> 
> Unfortunately, he isn't. There are some system which put a lot of
> binaries into /etc (e.g. ping on HP-UX).

brrr... is it that bad?

> Or did you just want to point
> out that there are other systems "abusing" /usr/etc for binaries as
> well, like IRIX?

No, just that the original posting (I'm loosing track a little.. <g>) was
about daemons in /usr/etc and the reply was that no binaries should be in
/etc. Anyway I agree that /etc should contain no binaries at all, and
/usr/etc should be abolished alltogether. :) (It's the most inconsistent
dirname in the whole kgmd) :) And I guess most of the current /usr/etc
stuff can go into /sbin but I'm not going to interfere with that
discussion too much since all *n*x I've seen so far is mint/kgmd and
mint/taf, the rest is intuition. :)


Maurits.

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