[Dovecot] Default dirs in ./configure?

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Peter Lindgren wrote:

> my own private mail server admin, I just wonder why the sysconf and state 
> dirs defaults to $prefix? Maybe I'm old-school, but isn't /etc and /var,

Points of view vary. As others already said, /etc and /var are vender 
places, but some vendors say no 'var' on /usr and provide /var/local, even 
/etc/local for the same reason.

I think there was something:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_Hierarchy_Standard

/usr/local is a bit obsolete and replaced by /opt in conjunction with 
/etc/opt and /var/opt.

/usr/local is to replicate plain /etc /bin /sbin structure, but some 
vendors deny "var" contents there, because /usr might be mounted read 
only.

Bye,

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Steffen Kaiser
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