On 22.3.2012, at 10.30, Noel Butler wrote: > On Thu, 2012-03-22 at 07:28 +0100, Andraž 'ruskie' Levstik 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 sysconf dir is the > > > Then you and I and a few other devs involved in other very well known > bits of software that everyone likely uses, will have to agree to > disagree
A ton of software installs into /etc/<package name>/ directory. Most Linux distributions installed Dovecot v1.x that way as well. And of course everyone expects configuration to be under /etc. The default of sysconfdir is PREFIX/etc/. Dovecot v2.0 really shouldn't install its stuff into PREFIX/etc/ but into PREFIX/etc/dovecot/. 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?
