Hi,

I've found it weird for a very long time already that the default  
PKG_SYSCONFBASE points to PREFIX/etc.  Some reasons:

- PREFIX is usually /usr/pkg, and /usr should be read-only mountable.
- /etc is the place that is supposed to have the configuration files.
- Configuration files are usually per-host, but this is not easy to
   achieve if /usr/pkg is network-shared.
- VARBASE is also a configurable setting and _does not_ default to
   PREFIX/var.  It "correctly" points to /var.

So I propose we change the default PKG_SYSCONFBASE from PREFIX/etc to  
point to /etc/pkg.  What would you think of such change?  Any way it  
could be made transparent to the end user?  (Because if we did it, he  
could end up with a mixture of packages using the old setting and  
some others pointing to the new one.)

(One of the reasons I have never used the binary packages we publish  
is precisely because of this bogus default.)

Thanks,

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>