Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Preposal: ethereal.conf

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From: David Frascone <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:11:09 -0500
> > (I use "${libdir}" to refer to the directory in which the file appears -
> > it might be "/usr/lib" if Ethereal was configured to be installed in
> > "/usr/lib", or, instead, we might go for "/usr/share" or
> > "/usr/local/share", as, so far, all files in "~/.ethereal" are, I think,
> > text files, and thus shareable between different platforms.)
> 
> Why not /etc (or /usr/local/etc:/usr/etc:/etc) as with almost all other
> *.conf files?

When I actually did it (see rest of thread), I used ${datadir}, which is
by default /usr/local/etc.

Still waiting on comments to patches I posted.