Re: gEDA: Should a freshly installed geda behave like this?

[Hamish Moffatt <hamish@debian.org>]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 02:30:22PM -0700, Stephen Brickles wrote:
> I'm not a Debian person - but it seems to me that a program such as gEDA
> should be able to startup - even if it cannot find the default config file.
> At the very least the master config file should be within the installation
> heirachy not in some other place.  The one in the 'other place' - in this
> case /etc/gEDA should override any entries in the master one - and you
> would never edit the one in the installation heirachy but it exists purely
> so the tool will startup with some reasonable defaults.

That's one scheme. This would need support from Ales - it's not a Debian
issue. As it is now, the files in /etc/gEDA are supplied and are
required for gschem to run.

Actually I don't agree with your scheme. There are lots of required
files in /etc; I don't see why any program should be required to work if
root has randomly deleted files in /etc.

Hamish
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