[BRLTTY] Suggestion for the new release

Adrian van Bloois adrian at pa0rda.nl
Thu Mar 2 17:19:39 EST 2017


On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 03:40:04PM -0500, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Adrian van Bloois on 2017/03/02 at 21:13 +0100]
> 
> >Maybe it's a good idea to introduce a directory /etc/brltty.d like some
> >other packages do rsyslog .e.g..
> >In there you can put the things you don't want to be overwriten lik e
> >e.g. Text/my.ttb and Input/al/bc680.ktb in my case.
> >Hence a directory containing config files normally stored in /etc/brltty
> >but you want to overwrite locally and you don't want to be overwritten
> >with the next release.
> 
> It's a good suggestion, but what we already have may be good enough (see 
> README.Customize). In short, we support the XDG stuff. So, for example, you can 
> put all your customizations directly into /etc/xdg/brltty/ (no subdirectories).
OK, good thing, I'll have alook at it.
It's common practice though nowwadays to have a xy.d direcotry, not just
rsyslog.d but there alot of them here is what I have in my /etc:
auto.master.d
bash_completion.d
binfmt.d
cgconfig.d
chkconfig.d
clamd.d
cron.d
depmod.d
dnsmasq.d
dracut.conf.d
exports.d
gdbinit.d
grub.d
init.d
krb5.conf.d
ld.so.conf.d
logrotate.d
modprobe.d
modules-load.d
my.cnf.d
oddjobd.conf.d
pam.d
popt.d
prelink.conf.d
profile.d
rc.d
rc0.d
rc1.d
rc2.d
rc3.d
rc4.d
rc5.d
rc6.d
request-key.d
rsyslog.d
rwtab.d
setuptool.d
statetab.d
sysctl.d
tmpfiles.d
xinetd.d
yum.repos.d
> 
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