From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/2299 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: deskpot@despammed.com (Vasily Korytov) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: multiple mailcap entries Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:27:27 +0400 Message-ID: <873ckn8yvk.fsf@unix.home> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668779 14623 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:52:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:52:59 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:30:29 2006 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090018 (Oort Gnus v0.18) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code) Cancel-Lock: sha1:7+1IeFuePljtknW/+1WFj/tb0ZI= Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: h122.37.elnet.msk.ru Original-X-Trace: 12 Apr 2003 20:51:29 +0300, h122.37.elnet.msk.ru Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!195.54.106.170.MISMATCH!newsfeed1!bredband!newsfeed.gamma.ru!srcc!Gamma.RU!news.telekom.ru!unix.home!news Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:2439 Original-Lines: 19 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 2439 Tue Jan 17 17:30:29 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:2299 Archived-At: On 12 Apr 2003 09:45:03 -0400, William F. Hammond wrote: > Aren't /etc and /usr/etc generally are regarded as being for vendor > defaults, while /usr/local/etc is for system defaults? If so, > shouldn't /usr/local/etc be higher in these lists? [...] I have never heard of such a convention. IIRC, FHS doesn't mention /usr/(local/)?/etc at all. IMHO, if I have both /usr/local/etc/aa.conf and /etc/aa.conf, that's wrong by itself and I shouldn't care much about the sequence. The reason to have /etc/mailcap before /usr/local/etc/mailcap is: it's more standard and frequently used. -- I accept RFC3156 and RFC2440-compatible encrypted mail. PGP key fingerprint: 123A 7CCE 6E26 6233 0D87 E01A A0F8 3524 FCD8 1841