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Re: [PATCH] Install config files

From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
To: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
Cc: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, ams at gnu dot org
Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2014 14:34:42 +0530
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install config files
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On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 02:34:57PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote:
> Precisely.  For all the packages I handle in Arch Linux, glibc is really
> an outlier in terms of requiring its configuration files to be manually
> installed.

Ditto for RHEL/Fedora.

> Does anyone really do a "make install" onto the root of their system
> anyway?

Probably not, but if at all there were someone, we'd give them a shock
by suddenly overwriting their configuration files.  So it might be
wise to just let things be the way they are, unless there's a really
great benefit to doing it.

Siddhesh

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References:
- [PATCH] Install config files
  - From: Allan McRae
- Re: [PATCH] Install config files
  - From: Alfred M. Szmidt
- Re: [PATCH] Install config files
  - From: Mike Frysinger
- Re: [PATCH] Install config files
  - From: Allan McRae

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