Re: [SM-DEVEL] Configuration Directory

[Sam J. <sa...@sa...>]

Philippe Mingo wrote:

>Regarding the data and attachment directory (conf.pl General Options 2 &
>3 ) I suggest we ask only for one main folder (ex: /var/lib/squirrelmail)
>and let SM manage the structure (adding data and tmp). Additionally we
>should place in that folder config.php, that way a single SM installation
>could be shared by different configuration through symlinks.
>
>Saludos
>Philippe
>
that's fine in that it's simple, but it's not FHS friendly. config files 
go in /etc, prefs and so on are best suited to /var/lib, and attachments 
are effectively temporary files and should really live in /tmp, or 
/var/spool. i wonder why we bother having a separate area for 
attachments? people expect to see config files in /etc and expect that 
backing up /etc catches most of this information. prefs i'm not so sure 
about but without a better offer /var/lib sounds good.

FHS is debian policy btw, hence bringing it up.

 - samj