dovecot - Mar 2012 - sysconfdir depreacted

The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the
configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s).

Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/
ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc  as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that,
is this a bug? if not, then I see no point of sysconfdir any more and it
should be removed, if dovecot deliberately ignores what it is told to
use.

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On 21.3.2012, at 15.26, Noel Butler wrote:
> The purpose of any build scripts --sysconfdir is to tell the
> configuration to build in a path for its binaries configuration file(s).
> 
> Dovecot 2.1.3, seems to insist that that directory is now /etc/dovecot/
> ignoring --sysconfdir=/etc  as in 1.2.x and previous majors before that,
> is this a bug? if not, then I see no point of sysconfdir any more and it
> should be removed, if dovecot deliberately ignores what it is told to
> use.

--sysconfdir=/etc uses /etc/dovecot/

--sysconfdir=/opt/dovecot/etc uses /opt/dovecot/etc/dovecot/

There is now always the dovecot/ suffix, but the the /etc part is still
configurable.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012, dovecot-request at dovecot.org wrote:
>> See http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2009-January/036131.html
>
> Yes, I was also thinking about that, but it's about removing the
> dovecot/ suffix from other directories as well.  That might be
> something worth doing (--without-package-suffix or something?).
+1.  I fake it now with symlinks (e.g. etc/dovecot -> .).

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>