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Re: Pending Packages List, 2003-11-07


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 12:48:59PM -0000, Morrison, John wrote:
> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > 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?

No.  Is not a bad idea == is a good idea. ;-)

> > 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

Wait, I thought we're talking about a system-wide sgreprc file which is 
expected in /usr/share.  Did I get that wrong?

Corinna

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