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Issue 4586 - DMD should look for dmd.conf in /usr/local/etc
Summary: DMD should look for dmd.conf in /usr/local/etc
Status: NEW
Alias: None
Product: D
Classification: Unclassified
Component: dmd (show other issues)
Version: D2
Hardware: All Linux
: P3 minor
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Reported: 2010-08-05 07:00 UTC by Leandro Lucarella
Modified: 2024-12-13 17:52 UTC (History)
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Description Leandro Lucarella 2010-08-05 07:00:54 UTC 
According to the FHS[1] (Filesystem Hierarchy Standard), "The /usr/local hierarchy is for use by the system administrator when installing software locally", so by default DMD should probably be installed there (and give a nice and simple option in the makefile to let the package maintainers change that to /usr, probably using the well known "prefix" variable).

Anyway, even when things installed in /usr/local could have their config files in /etc directly, it is recommended to use /usr/local/etc instead, in case you want to install a local version of a program already installed as a package.

DMD should then look for dmd.conf in /usr/local/etc before looking in /etc.

[1] http://www.pathname.com/fhs/
Comment 1 dlangBugzillaToGithub 2024-12-13 17:52:46 UTC 
THIS ISSUE HAS BEEN MOVED TO GITHUB

https://github.com/dlang/dmd/issues/18288

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