Re: Linux is not about choice [was Re: Fedora too cutting edge?]

[David Zeuthen <david fubar dk>]

On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 18:03 +0100, Nils Philippsen wrote:
> There's the bad idea that everything under /etc/ is configurable, but in
> reality these rules are "program data" and ideally should go into /share
> if that existed (which would avoid people thinking they're meant to
> touch that stuff, hopefully).

I agree it's confusing / misleading that udev stores it's rules in /etc.
They are, as you point out, really just program data (at least 99% of
them). I'll talk to upstream about moving the bulk to /lib[64]/udev
instead.

      David