From: "Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:42:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140109174249.GA10171@thyrsus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mzk3e9ks92.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>:
> Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>
> > I propose to fix this with a reorganization. /etc should be the data
> > directory for files used by Lisp and programs in the suite. The files
> > meant exclusively for human browsing - the jokes, the cookie recipe,
> > the Manifesto, the hacking guides - should move to a new directory
> > designated for such content.
>
> Does not seem like a good idea to me.
That's not a useful response unless accompanied by an explanation.
--
<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-09 17:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-09 14:02 RFC - cleaning up /etc Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-09 14:48 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 15:09 ` Samuel El-Borai
2014-01-09 16:57 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-09 17:42 ` Eric S. Raymond [this message]
2014-01-09 19:50 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-10 14:35 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-10 15:51 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 7:15 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:17 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 18:37 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-11 10:53 ` Ulrich Mueller
2014-01-11 20:01 ` Glenn Morris
2014-01-11 20:59 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-11 21:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-11 21:27 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:07 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-12 0:20 ` Eric S. Raymond
2014-01-12 0:37 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 1:06 ` Progress report on git-blame (was: RFC - cleaning up /etc) David Kastrup
2014-01-25 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 8:59 ` Progress report on git-blame David Kastrup
2014-01-25 9:21 ` martin rudalics
2014-01-25 9:27 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 10:12 ` David Kastrup
2014-02-20 18:33 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-01-25 18:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 18:52 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 18:59 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 19:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-25 19:44 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-25 20:02 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-25 21:45 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 14:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-01-27 14:17 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 21:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 23:03 ` Óscar Fuentes
2014-01-26 1:48 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 19:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 19:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-01-26 22:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-26 6:30 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-26 15:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-01-25 8:28 ` David Engster
2014-01-25 9:14 ` David Kastrup
2014-01-12 3:03 ` RFC - cleaning up /etc Stefan Monnier
2014-01-12 13:46 ` Richard Stallman
2014-01-12 19:17 ` Glenn Morris
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