From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: esr@thyrsus.com
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFC - cleaning up /etc
Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2014 14:50:56 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r2d2k1aq8v.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140109174249.GA10171@thyrsus.com> (Eric S. Raymond's message of "Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:42:49 -0500")
"Eric S. Raymond" wrote:
>> Does not seem like a good idea to me.
>
> That's not a useful response unless accompanied by an explanation.
It seems necessary to respond quickly these days.
Anything in etc/ that is important is accessed via Emacs commands/menus.
M-x view-emacs-news, describe-no-warranty, describe-gnu-project, etc.
Moving the file does nothing but break any external references that
may exist.
The only reason that files like ORDERS still exist is for historical
reasons, in case of some external reference pointing to them.
Anything in there that is not important (COOKIES etc) is frankly only
there for sentimental historical reasons, because people will kick up
a fuss if they get removed. Moving it eg to an etc/misc subdirectory
is pointless IMO. And etc/jokes would just be leaden.
And an entire new top-level directory is an awful idea.
Basically, if a file is not pointless, there'll be an external
reference to it somewhere. If it is pointless, it does not matter
where it lives. So overall, better to leave alone IMO.
And again: not during a feature freeze, please.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-09 19:50 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
2014-01-09 19:50 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
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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