Re: New postfix vs. /var

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Oct 9,  7:36am, Christos Zoulas 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 ?
} 
} 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?

     Does /var/lib/postfix contain files that the user ever has to look
at?  If not, then there is no reason to worry about where the files are
placed.

}-- End of excerpt from Christos Zoulas