[Dovecot] CHANGE REQUEST: Move config files out of main $sysconfdir
Brian G. Peterson
brian at braverock.com
Fri Nov 17 03:34:04 UTC 2006
Currently, dovecot places it's config files in $sysconfdir
In Makefile.am, this is defines as:
confdir = $(sysconfdir)
It would be far more friendly to an already overloaded /etc/ directory,
and easier to locate the files, to follow the now-common convention and
place files in $sysconfdir / dovecot / ... on most systems this would
mean:
/etc/dovecot/
If there is only a dovecot.conf, it doesn't really matter, but when
additional config files get added for ldap, sql, sieve, it starts to add
up.
Some distributions already make this change, but placing this change in
the dovecot core would make it unnecessary for downstream packagers to
make a change to the core dovecot distribution files.
Regards,
- Brian
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