23 Mar
2012
23 Mar
'12
1:19 p.m.
On Mar 23, 2012, at 10:51 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
:2012-03-22T11:55:Noel Butler:
perhaps it should be renamed then, given it violates the known normal for SYSCONF dir, you've just created another form of --datadir
Not really. The way I see it works as expected.
The directory for installing read-only data files that pertain to a single machine–that is to say, files for configuring a host. Mailer and network configuration files, ‘/etc/passwd’, and so forth belong here. All the files in this directory should be ordinary ASCII text files. This directory should normally be ‘/usr/local/etc’, but write it as ‘$(prefix)/etc’. (If you are using Autoconf, write it as ‘@sysconfdir@’.)
Well, I don't see that that prevents organizing the files in sysconfdir into a subdirectory.
ton of software installs into /etc/<package name>/ directory. [...] So the only way I can think of how to change this is to add another option to optionally remove the dovecot/ suffix from the directory, but is this really worth the trouble?
I really don't think so. What for? Nobody has shown a real-world problem with that subdirectory.