[csw-maintainers] /opt/csw/var and /var/opt/csw

[Philip Brown]

On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 10:54:06PM +0200, Dagobert Michelsen wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Am 08.04.2009 um 21:57 schrieb Roger Håkansson:
>> I've got the impression that /opt/csw/var is a obsolete place to put  
>> things and that /var/opt/csw should be used instead.
>> Shouldn't this be reflected when using gar?
>> I.e gar.conf.mk should have localstatedir = /var/opt/csw instead of $ 
>> (prefix)/var
>
> I guess you are right. But this may break existing packages. Maybe this 
> is
> a candidate for mGAR v3? I would like to have some feedback from more
> package maintainers on this change.

then they need to be "broken", and then fixed.



> This is also partly true for sysconfdir = /opt/csw/etc vs. /etc/opt/csw

"partly" is accurate.
Sometimes, it is still appropriate for sysconfdir to be /opt/csw/etc