[OmniOS-discuss] file system organisation for pkg packages

[Chris Nehren]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 16:55:04 +0200, Tobias Oetiker wrote:
> from a system management point of view I like to have a simple rule
> to decide where the config is and where the 'data' is ...
> 
> so keeping the application in /opt/vendor is perfect for the static
> part of the application ...
> 
> but having the configuration and the data in the same tree makes it
> harder to know what is part of the distribution and what is part of
> the application ...

You could ship default configs and similar files with a .dist
suffix, as some open source systems tend to do. Not sure if that
would fully address your concern, but it's something to think
about.

-- 
Chris Nehren