[M3devel] CM3 RELENG: suggestion for distribution packages

[Tony Hosking]

Again, I don't see why the config file should be thought of as  
something that users should edit.  It is specific to a given  
installation, not to configuration of the packages after installation.

On 28 May 2009, at 16:34, Olaf Wagner wrote:

> Quoting hendrik at topoi.pooq.com:
>
>> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:57:27AM +0200, Olaf Wagner wrote:
>>>
>>> 2. Actually move the default for configuration files to cm3/etc,
>>
>> Debian may well insist that configuration files be in /etc/cm3.
>
> Understood. I'd think that something like
>
>  $ORIGIN/../etc/cm3.cfg:$ORIGIN/cm3.cfg:/usr/local/etc:/usr/etc
>
> as a default may be reasonable. For more exotic setups, the
> binaries must either be recompiled or the environment variable
> M3CONFIG must be used.
>
>>>   though I objected that change for this release previously. But  
>>> it won't
>>>   get easier if we wait, and I think we can built in some backward
>>>   compatibility that should help during the migration. It will  
>>> take some
>>>   more time though.
>>
>> -- hendrik
>>
>>
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