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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Peter Lindgren wrote:
my own private mail server admin, I just wonder why the sysconf and state dirs defaults to $prefix? Maybe I'm old-school, but isn't /etc and /var,
Points of view vary. As others already said, /etc and /var are vender places, but some vendors say no 'var' on /usr and provide /var/local, even /etc/local for the same reason.
I think there was something: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard
/usr/local is a bit obsolete and replaced by /opt in conjunction with /etc/opt and /var/opt.
/usr/local is to replicate plain /etc /bin /sbin structure, but some vendors deny "var" contents there, because /usr might be mounted read only.
Bye,
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