On 2018-01-03 05:05, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 02/01/18 09:57 PM, Carlos E. R. wrote:
Best place for local config setting? Hmm....
/usr/local ? It would be /usr/local/etc/* for local configs, but I doubt this would work. At best, a file there would supersede the distribution file. This would have to be tested file by file, IMO.
I don't think it would work either.
Take, for example the SYSTEMD.UNIT man page where it says:
SYNOPSIS SYNOPSIS ... /etc/systemd/system/* /run/systemd/system/* /usr/lib/systemd/system/* ...
Indeed. I remember one instance when a program used /usr/local/etc/*. The devs argued that when the program was built locally and installed to /usr/local/*, the configuration files would also go to /usr/local/etc/*, or something like that. It was the only time I saw this, and no, I don't remember what program it was. Something related to Fidonet, IIRC. -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from 42.2 x86_64 "Malachite" at Telcontar)