In some places I've read, users have mentioned the path /etc/yum/repos.d along side /etc/yum.repos.d. Was this a path that actually used at some point?
I even loaded of CentOS 5.11 and it's still /etc/yum.repos.d. Was this other path ever used? It seems odd that the repos.d directory isn't inside /etc/yum. Does anyone know the history of this?
It was a thing up until CentOS 5. man yum.conf had:
reposdir A list of directories where yum should look for .repo
files which define repositories to use. Default is `/etc/yum/re-
pos.d'.
(But elsewhere in that manpage, and in man yum, the path mentioned is /etc/yum.repos.d. This might have been the transitional version.)
In CentOS 6, that became:
reposdir A list of directories where yum should look for .repo
files which define repositories to use. Default is `/etc/yum.re-
pos.d'.
