On Mon, 2019-07-29 at 18:54 +0200, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
I'd prefer /usr/config or /usr/cfg over /usr/etc. Aside from the collision in usage, "etc" is a terrible name for the configuration directory ("etc" was a catch-all directory originally, which is why so many executable shell scripts were in there...), and we can do better than that in 2019.
+1 for /usr/etc for obvious reasons:
everyone coming from a *NIX background *knows* what /etc is and probably can deduct, what /usr/etc is. Even if you believe it was a terrible name, it *is* a name known to a lot of people, at least from a generation before 2019 or maybe more ;) Even M$ adopted it... (do you know where their /etc/hosts equivalent lives ;) ? )
+1 for /usr/etc from me also. It's important that we establish the relationship between /etc and /usr/etc, and that's easiest done with reflecting that in their names. The objections/alternatives to /usr/etc only ring true to me if we are willing to start a crusade for renaming /etc to something else. And I'm not ;) Regards, -- Richard Brown Linux Distribution Engineer - Future Technology Team Chairman - openSUSE Phone +4991174053-361 SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg GF: Felix Imendörffer, Mary Higgins, Sri Rasiah HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org