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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>



  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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