On Sat, 29 Nov 2014, Nicholas Boel wrote to Kees van Eeten:

 KE>  Just a reaction from somebody who just installed a package he had
 KE> never seen before.

 NB> So is there a fine line drawn between all of the GUI based mailers
 NB> that pop up a window saying "Directory does not exist. Would you
 NB> like to create?" and the daemon mailers that make it more painful
 NB> to exit out of your config file without saving changes in order to
 NB> add a directory before you can successfully save the changes?

hunh? aren't we in a multitasking world where one can easily open or switch to
another task and create the missing directory or file while still in the editor
or config program? ;)

 NB> I guess I don't see much of a difference. Sure it's a good thing
 NB> that it tells you the directory doesn't exist and that it won't do
 NB> anything. But the "option" I also mentioned could be toggleable for
 NB> the administrator. *shrug* 

one of the things that i have found problematic with autocreating directories
is when something is misspelled or typoed... it isn't always easy to spot them
but i generally find them with i'm looking for a directory and it isn't where
it is supposed to be because of the typo... it is those times that i'm glad the
programs can/will move things for me when i correct the misspelling or typo...
with daemons, i have to create the proper area and copy the old location's
contents over, then save the fixed config, wait on the program to reload and
start using the new location and finally i can then delete the old location...
sometimes it is easier to just shut the program down, make the fix and then
start the program back up... kinda sucks when you find you've typoed again ;)
:lol:

)\/(ark