Re: CVS commit: src

["Perry E. Metzger" <perry%piermont.com@localhost>]

Daniel Carosone <dan%geek.com.au@localhost> writes:
> On Wed, Jul 26, 2006 at 09:39:54PM -0400, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
>> > Fits /var/db pretty well, if that's really the case.
>> 
>> If it configures the kernel and survives reboots I'm not sure that it
>> should be in /var/db except for a few trivial things like ntp.drift
>> which really is not per se configuration.
>
> Then neither should dhclient.leases, which is a closely analogous
> construct.

The leases file is ephimeral data -- it isn't the result of user
editing and it can be blown away without any real issue. Same with the
ntp.drift file. If the bluetooth xml file is something that can't be
blown away at will, it isn't really something for the db
dir. Otherwise it might be.

.pm