[arch-general] Question about the mailman package

[Allan McRae]

Sebastian Köhler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to install the mailman package but I'm wondering if there
> is a good reason why this package installs all its content into /home/ ?
>
> Wouldn't /opt/ be a better place for a program like mailman?
>
> According to [1] the /home/ directory is off limits for packages.
>
>
> [1]<http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Directories>

See http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11481.  Maybe this will get handled 
when the maintainer updates it to the latest version.  Of course, a 
working and fixed PKGBUILD always helps speed things along.

Allan