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Re: rc & runsystem


From: Roland McGrath
Subject: Re: rc & runsystem
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 18:15:12 -0800 (PST)

> >    Was there anything wrong with this patch?
> > 
> > Meh, late...  This patch being the following, I think we can all agree
> > that /etc only contains configuration files.
> 
> The /etc/login files are in the grey area, like rc would be if it stilled
> lived in /etc. ;-)  I think it would be better to decruft config/Makefile
> and instead have a top-level configure/makefile option to exclude the
> config subdir altogether.  It never does anything but make install, so no
> reason to have it in the list at all if it's not installing any files.

I guess the right thing would be to exclude it always and just have a 
make install-config target that does make -C config install.




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