Re: [Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

On 21.3.2012, at 15.26, Noel Butler wrote:

The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s).

Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/ ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that, is this a bug? if not, then I see no point of sysconfdir any more and it should be removed, if dovecot deliberately ignores what it is told to use.

--sysconfdir=/etc uses /etc/dovecot/

--sysconfdir=/opt/dovecot/etc uses /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/

There is now always the dovecot/ suffix, but the the /etc part is still configurable.