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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by deno on Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:12PM (#4332166)
I think they meant the latter. Why is it /etc instead of, perhaps more obvious, /config or /settings?
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Re:Rob Pike: the origin of dotfiles by malkia on Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:43PM (#4332265)
If it was meant for configuration - probably it would've been - /cfg /ini /set /opt /flg /arg /prm (params)

As someone said - naming things is the hardest!

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