>I think GNU's gospel includes /etc. > > https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html > > If your program installs a large number of files into one of the > standard user-specified directories, it might be useful to group > them into a subdirectory particular to that program. If you do > this, you should write the install rule to create these > subdirectories.
I understand their point, but we could say the same thing about $(bindir) and I don't think anyone is suggesting we default to installing all of the executables in $(bindir)/nmh (unless maybe we are?). I guess my real question is ... should this decision be made by a packaging system, or should we enforce it always? I'm totally fine with an nmh RPM/deb/BSD port/Homebrew recipe doing --sysconfir=/etc/nmh, or whatever. What gives me pause is us enforcing that without giving the user a chance to overrride it; that was the point of Steve Winikoff's original email, and that was the change in behavior from 1.6 that I don't think was really fully understood at the time it was implemented. --Ken -- Nmh-workers https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
