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Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH 1/4] Support --confdir in configure to
 specify path to configuration files
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To: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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On 01/21/2010 07:48 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> --confdir can be used to override the
> default to an absolute path.  The expectation is that when installed to /usr,
>   --confdir=/etc/qemu will be used.

Why not --sysconfdir?  There are already several differences between 
Autoconf options and QEMU configure options, however unlike the others 
this one would be used by basically all distros.

Paolo