Why mail/dovecot installs rc script in /etc/rc.d/ ?

[Brooks Davis]

On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 11:13:45AM +0300, Vasil Dimov wrote:
> Normally rc scripts for applications from the ports collection go into
> /usr/local/etc/rc.d/.
> 
> Is there any special reason for mail/dovecot to install its rcNG script
> in /etc/rc.d/ instead of /usr/local/etc/rc.d/?
> 
> mergemaster does not know anything about it and asks if it should be
> deleted.

Ports usually do this because they need to be executed at a time of
their choice and that's the only way to do it under the current regime.
mergemaster is broken in this case.

-- Brooks

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