[PATCH] Install config files

Siddhesh Poyarekar siddhesh@redhat.com
Mon Feb 24 09:48:00 GMT 2014


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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