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Re: location of the configuration files

Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>

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From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
To: mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>, Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
Date: 2003-02-14T18:27:49Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Thu, Feb 13, 2003 at 11:53:26 -0500,
  mlw <pgsql@mohawksoft.com> wrote:
> 
> Where, specificaly are his arguements against a configuration file 
> methodology?

I don't think he is argueing against a configuration methodology, but
rather against the methodology being used in Unix distributions.
In particular he doesn't file the Linux File Standard because it
puts the same software in different places depending on whether the
vendor or using installed it.