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["Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Waldemar Kornewald" <Waldemar.Kornewald@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > I think the ease or porting new versions is no reason to disregard 
> > BeOS' standard locations to put files like these. IOW files like 
> > .bashrc or .vimrc don't belong where they go now - they belong to 
> > B_USER_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY.
> > And such, the files you mention would go into a 
> > B_BEOS_SETTINGS_DIRECTORY - which doesn't yet exist; in any way, it 
> > should be B_BEOS_ETC_DIRECTORY in this case :)
> > To properly port a piece of software, changing its paths to match 
> > those 
> > of BeOS is a requirement.
> We can easily change it from "/etc" to B_BEOS_ETC_DIRECTORY, but I 
> would not like to change libbind to also check B_USER_ETC_DIRECTORY 
> if there is no good reason for it. I would prefer if libbind just 
> compiled on 
> our system without any changes. The more we change the more problems 
> will we have with porting new versions.

Every system has different standard directories. If you port some 
software over to BeOS you should honor these locations - I think that's 
a pretty good reason already.
I think it's unlikely that the next libbind.so version changes the way 
they load their settings files; I don't really see the complication of 
updating then. But anyway, things like these are part of the 
responsibility of the maintainer of ported software.
Be already did a bad job at this, and I see no reason to copy that.

Anyway, since we're currently talking about packages made from our 
networking stack, I think it would be reasonable to just change the 
location to something that won't hurt the potential user of that 
package.

Bye,
   Axel.