[gst-devel] GST_CONFIG_DIR defaults

Benjamin Otte in7y118 at public.uni-hamburg.de
Wed Aug 22 21:22:33 CEST 2001


On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Andy Wingo wrote:

> are there any objections to changing the default GST_CONFIG_DIR to
> /etc/gstreamer? you'll always have --with-configdir if you don't like
> the linux filesystem standard ;)
> 
> seriously, /usr/etc or /usr/local/etc (generally
> ${prefix}/etc/gstreamer) is suboptimal, imho.
> 
> regards,
> 
> wingo
> 

I would object, but I'm just a user. :)
I'd like my /etc dir to be relevant for bootup things only and
/usr/etc have the mess of user program settings.
But I guess I'll use --with-config-dir then.

Benjamin (Company)





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