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RE: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-07


Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:19:19PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
>> letters@hotpop.com wrote:
>>> 
>>> Package recompiled and example noved to:
>>> 
>>>     /etc/defaults/etc/sample.sgreprc
>>> 
>>> as suggested in Message-ID:
> <87ad73nbyv.fsf@vzell-de.de.oracle.com>
>>> Mon, 10 Nov 2003 22:35:36 +0100 by Daniel Reed
>> 
>> Jari, *please* call it /etc/defaults/etc/.sgreprc and copy
>> *ONLY* if /etc/.sgreprc doesn't already exist :)
> 
> While I second the "copy only if..." rule, I don't understand why
> the default file should be named ".sgreprc".  The result of the
> copy has no leading dot, has it?
> 
> The other problem is that files with leading dot are not visible with
> `ls' by default.  Giving it a name in the default dir, which makes it
> visible, isn't a bad idea, IMHO.
 ^^^ invisible?

> I just don't think /etc/defaults/etc is the right place for the file.
> Better choices are 
> 
>   /etc/defaults/sgreprc
>   /usr/share/doc/sgrep/sample.sgreprc

Sorry, but the way I worked /etc/defaults is that, the prefix of
/etc/defaults is removed and the resulting filename is the destination.
So, /etc/defaults/sgreprc would result in copying the file to /sgreprc

If an invisible file needs a default (/etc/skel/.bashrc), so be it :)

J.


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