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I can think of no system services that don't use /etc. As for user programs, the only real things that I can think of breaking this convention are small project

I can think of no system services that don't use /etc. As for user programs, the only real things that I can think of breaking this convention are small projects that store their configuration files with the binary; usually small programs that run from their own directory. Would you care to elaborate on where these other programs choose to store their configuration?

ams6110 15y ago
Not unusual for third party software to have configuration files elsewhere though. You see this a lot with "Enterprise" java stuff, typically config files in XML scattered around the installation directory.