On Tue, 2006-08-15 at 23:30 -0400, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
> Personally I think default should be /usr/local/dbmail and *EVERYTHING* 
> should default under that.  I don't like programs (especially hand 
> compiled one) spraying files all over my file system.  I find it much 
> neater when they are all contained under one directory.

Hmm, yeah, but there's also the -f and -p command line options.
'make install' doesn't do anything with the dbmail.conf file or create
any directories under /var -- but there is a new hardcoded path for the
stdout/stderr files /var/log/dbmail.log/err. That needs configurability.

> Plus this allows a user to compile and test the program without root 
> access, and makes it easy to have multiple installs on the same system 
> for testing purposes.
>
> Now I understand that may not be a popular view, so I would be satisfied 
> with the additional configure flags you suggest below.  As long as there 
> is a fairly standard way of getting everything in one place without 
> having to edit .h files, I'm happy.

I'm a little busy at the end of this week, but will definitely put this
on my todo-list for next week.

Aaron

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