[1945] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: Configuration directories
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Weiss)
Tue Nov 12 15:28:14 1996
From: Jonathon Weiss <jweiss@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Cc: source-developers@MIT.EDU, krbdev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Nov 1996 19:33:18 EST."
<199611110033.TAA29742@limekiller.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 15:27:49 EST
> 2. Always look for configuration files in @sysconfdir@ (which
> defaults to ${prefix}/etc, although we would probably
> override it in config.site to be /etc/athena). This is
> what the FSF would like people to do when you use Autoconf.
I think this is my preference. This has the asthetic advantage that
it doesn't dump a lot of stuff in /etc.
> An orthogonal question is:
>
> Should we consider it a requirement that packages accept an
> environment variable telling them where to look for
> configuration data? If so, should there be a standard form
> for the name and value of this environment variable, and what
> should it be?
I don't know that we should require it, but it certainly seems like
something we should encourage.
Jonathon
