On Sat, Jan 18, 2020 at 6:38 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > But now users have to follow one more step (create /home/amavis) when > setting up amavisd-new. Is the QA check really assuring a quality user > experience here? >
Lots of daemons need a home directory for their users, and usually they manage to get by in /var/lib. It really seems like a bad practice to start having packages creating stuff in /home. Certainly I don't want random daemons sticking stuff in /home, which I manage differently from the OS-owned directories. I'll just end up having to manually create stuff where it belongs in /var/lib and then symlink everything back from /home, and now I have distro cruft in /home and non-distro cruft in /var/lib, and neither is ideal. It seems like the straightforward solution is to stick everything in /var/lib/amavis, and fix things so that everything has the right permissions regardless of install order. If /var/lib/amavis is getting installed root-owned then it should be chowned when amavis is installed, especially for the first time. That seems sane. Another option is to have /var/lib/amavis/home and /var/lib/amavis/work. -- Rich
