Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous.

[Ken Hornstein]

>I think GNU's gospel includes /etc.
>
>    https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html
>
>    If your program installs a large number of files into one of the
>    standard user-specified directories, it might be useful to group
>    them into a subdirectory particular to that program.  If you do
>    this, you should write the install rule to create these
>    subdirectories.

I understand their point, but we could say the same thing about $(bindir)
and I don't think anyone is suggesting we default to installing all
of the executables in $(bindir)/nmh (unless maybe we are?).

I guess my real question is ... should this decision be made by a
packaging system, or should we enforce it always?  I'm totally fine with
an nmh RPM/deb/BSD port/Homebrew recipe doing --sysconfir=/etc/nmh, or
whatever.  What gives me pause is us enforcing that without giving the
user a chance to overrride it; that was the point of Steve Winikoff's
original email, and that was the change in behavior from 1.6 that I
don't think was really fully understood at the time it was implemented.

--Ken