On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 07:28 +0100, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik 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 sysconf dir is the
Then you and I and a few other devs involved in other very well known bits of software that everyone likely uses, will have to agree to disagree
"sysconfdir"
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@’.)root of the configuration dir. Then if the app so chooses uses it's own directory structure under that. Considering that by default dovecot uses dovecot/dovecot.conf and dovecot/conf.d I don't see anything wrong here.
By default as of only 2.something, not in 0.x not in 1.0.x not in 1.1.x and not in 1.2.x
I've said all I'm going to say on the mater, I got three emails offlist from others here agreeing with me, shame they didn't do it on-list, but I respect their right to remain silent so as not to endure the wrath of Timo and certain other cretins well known for having nothing else better to do.