[Bug 230324] Review Request: avrdude -Software for programming Atmel AVR Microcontroller

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Summary: Review Request: avrdude -Software for programming Atmel AVR Microcontroller


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------- Additional Comments From rc040203 at freenet.de  2007-02-28 11:53 EST -------
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> (In reply to comment #11)
> > (In reply to comment #10)
> > > (In reply to comment #9)

> > > Because its unnecessary deviating from upstream, upstreams docs / FAQ's
> > > mailinglist advice will say look at / edit /etc/avrdude.conf and it won't be
> > there.
> > Now you've lost me. Upstream lack of insight/experience as argument ?!?
> > 
> 
> No staying close to upstream as argument al by itself,
We are supposed to be system integrators. It's our job to integrate/customize a
package in such a way it fits best (what ever this means) into a system. This
exactly is the reason why configure scripts exist and why configure scripts
supply a --sysconfdir option. It's our job to choose what we think is best.

My experience tells me /etc/<file> is a mistake, because many other packages
commited the same mistake before and regretted it.

> just like we want to use
> the upstream <prefix>/<target> dir for gcc cross compilers amongst other
> things to not deviate from upstream.

Nope, not deviating from upstream is not the point wrt. <prefix>/target

The real reasons are 
* prefix/target is an established defacto standard for > decade, predating the
FHS/LSB.
* like many other "exotic" items and details it is missing from the FHS/LSB.
* prefix/target is not a configuration item. It's hard-coded and almost
impossible to change.

I'd be more than pleased to see this changed, but ... it's simply non-trivial
and non-realistic.

> Now if upstream but the config file under /usr/etc
> I would the first to say @#$% upstream and move that file to a better place, but
> there is _nothing_ wrong with upstream's placing in this case, so why move it
> and confuse users?
Cf. above. It's our job.

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