libsml2 & libxslt config files location

[Alexander Nedotsukov]

Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:

>On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 08:22:05PM +0900, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
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>>Dmitry,
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>>Dmitry Sivachenko wrote:
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>>>Hello!
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>>>Why libxml2 and libxslt ports install xml2Conf.sh and xsltConf.sh files in
>>>$PREFIX/etc?  /etc directory is for files which user is supposed to edit
>>>to adjust program behaviour.  These files does not contain anything to
>>>edit.  Probably they should be install either in $PREFIX/bin or
>>>$PREFIX/share/... ?
>>>
>>>What do people think?
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>>I think your current assumption of /etc directory purpose is wrong.
>>It's personal port preference to install these files info confexecdir. On 
>>Linux this usually lib/ but on FreeBSD we have different policy and etc/ 
>>looks like apropriate place. In short I do not see any hier(7) violation 
>>here.
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>Well, I do not talk about any hier(7) violation here.
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>The situation is as follows:  we have several chroot's sharing common
>/usr/, except /usr/local/etc, which holds custom config files.  All these files
>satisfy the following statement:
>We can update corresponding packages without touching files in /usr/local/etc.
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Okay. Probably I missed you point here but I would say in general case 
you can not update package w/o updating its config file if any.

>These two files are the only exception: they cantain hardcoded version number of
>libxml2 and libxslt.
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>It would be really nice to move them to some other place.
>Since their purpose matches gtk12-config closely, I propose /usr/local/bin for
>them.
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We have {xml2,xslt}-config wich plays role similar to gtk12-config. 
Those {xml2,xslt}Conf.sh files in qustion are *config* files. They 
supposed to be included by various shell scripts. Yes they have .sh 
suffix but look at their permissions, look at their content. I can count 
on number of ports and most notable is portupgrade wich keep such 
script-like config files under etc/ directory.

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