>Maybe we should create a /conf for the user-changed config files, and move
>that kind of stuff there. We could symlink from /etc for compatability.
>But this is getting into a different discussion....

what's wrong with replacing the thing the pkg looks at with a symlink
that points to a file in /etc?  that way, *all* your config files
actually live in /etc, and if you need to, you can add more symlinks
later, in different places, to use the same config files for (eg)
newer versions of the pkg.

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