Re: New postfix vs. /var

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

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?

christos