<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toad.social/@grumpybozo" class="u-url mention">@<span>grumpybozo</span></a></span> amazing</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> In early Unix, /etc/ was littered with utilities. It was still the default in Solaris 2.4 (AT&amp;T-derived) to have /etc in $PATH.</p>

<p>this is a nice saturday evening</p><p>what will a catherine do on it?</p><p>that&#39;s right. fixing deprecated cmake policies that break the boost build for this cross-compiled package</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> back in the good old times when people still adhered to the spirit and principles of UNIX</p>

<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> back in the ancient days, there was quite a few shellscripts and other loose configuration-related binaries in /etc. Early linux had lilo binaries there, for example.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> dmr&#39;s machine had /etc and /bin on different disks and one of them was full</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> chaotic neutral</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@whitequark" class="u-url mention">@<span>whitequark</span></a></span> say what</p>

<p>why was it in /etc??</p>