Re: New postfix vs. /var

[Geert Hendrickx <ghen%telenet.be@localhost>]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 07:28:46PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20080623.232234.55502246.taca%back-street.net@localhost>,
> Takahiro Kambe  <taca%back-street.net@localhost> wrote:
> >In message <20080623141317.GJ9289%bigmac.stderr.spb.ru@localhost>
> >     on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 18:13:17 +0400,
> >     "Valeriy E. Ushakov" <uwe%NetBSD.org@localhost> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > Module Name:     src
> >> > Date:            Mon Jun 23 03:12:19 UTC 2008
> >> > 
> >> > Modified Files:
> >> >  src/etc/mtree: NetBSD.dist
> >> > 
> >> > Log Message:
> >> > Add /var/lib before /var/lib/postfix as all parent directories MUST exist
> >> > as per mtree(8).  Unbreak build.
> >> 
> >> /var/lib ?!  Why not use existing /var/db ?
> >Seconded.
> 
> I can change it, but then we are going to be the only ones using
> it and this will not match the documentation for other systems. It
> is the same reason why we went back to name /etc/ssh/ssh.conf and
> /etc/ssh/sshd.conf to ssh_config and sshd_config respectively. It
> is easy enough to change; we can change the source code and the
> documentation to point to /var/db/postfix, but do you want to be
> different for the sake of being different?


I think it is more important that different applications behave consistent on
one OS (NetBSD) than that one application behaves consistently over different
OS'es (qmail style).

What goes under /var/lib/postfix, anyway?

        Geert