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.
