====== HOME-ETC ======
HOME-ETC  is  an  idea to keep configuration files in a subdirectory specified by user, instead of his home directory. The reason was I don't like a rash, and my home directory has started looking like that. 

The idea has arised on the occasion of developing PLD Linux/GNU distribution, where it is developed till now. Many  applications need to be patched, and the **HOME-ETC** library is a helper to not write the same thing more than once. 

**HOME_ETC**  is  a  pathname  container.  It may be obtained in two ways: using the environment variable of the same name, or using a file inside user's home directory. The filename is //.home_etc//. The second method must be provided because of applications,  which cannot touch user's environment (MTAs, identd, and other daemons). However, in PLD we're setting things up by invoking ///etc/profile.d/home-etc.?sh// scripts, which are setting the correct environment variable according to information found in the file (see sources for details). 

You can find more detailed description in the related manual pages. 



===== Sources =====
[[ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/people/siefca/distfiles/|ftp://ftp.pld-linux.org/people/siefca/distfiles/]] 



===== Authors =====
Pawel Wilk <siefca /a/ gnu.org> There was also a lot of other people, who have contributed to this  code  and/or  helped  with patching applications. See the AUTHORS and the CONTRIBUTORS files. 


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