[Dovecot] sysconfdir depreacted

[Rainer Frey]

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.