[csw-maintainers] use of /opt/csw/etc

Philip Brown phil at bolthole.com
Wed Apr 7 04:54:34 CEST 2010


btw, I hope to find time to write up some stuff on NFS tomorrow. but
while I think of it, here is an example of appropriate
 "global configuration" in /opt/csw/etc
that I just found in our packages:

/opt/csw/etc/fontconfig/fonts.conf

Without a "fonts.conf" file, fontconfig basically Does Not Work. So
you must supply one, across all machines you deploy /opt/csw to.
And, it is very unlikely (to say the least), that you would ever need
to have machine-local tweaks to this file.
It is basically configured at pkgadd time, and never messed with.

Although ideally, a package would allow for sysadmin customization,
and create the global one from a presumed template.
which our fontconfig package unfortunately does not :-}


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