>>>>> On Sat, 18 Jan 2020, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> Where do we put amavis's home directory?
> [...]

>   3 /home/amavis also seems fine to me, except for the fact that it's a
>     QA violation to install there.

> Note that we could always set system users' home directories to
> /home/whatever. It has only become a QA violation with GLEP81 because
> the eclass calls keepdir on the user's home directory.

> Should option (3) be viable, or do I go back to the drawing board?

Chances are that /home is site specific, e.g. with a special backup
policy, or shared between many hosts via NFS. So IMHO /home is off
limits for the package manager.

Your original idea of placing it somewhere under /var/lib sounds just
right.

Ulrich

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