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Karunamon on Oct 9, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base

Apt considers everything under /etc as a "config file", or any file mentioned in the special CONFFILES package file.

lifeisstillgood on Oct 9, 2015 [–]

So it could write the files to any location. But how to tell the application it should now look in a different place ? That's probably impossible to get every developer to do.

Symlink everything?

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