Am Mittwoch, 11. September 2019, 00:54:39 CEST schrieb Michael Orlitzky:
> On 9/10/19 4:25 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > I'm not entirely sure. It's what qmail always has done and what the eclass
> > also did.
> 
> This is suggested by the qmail documentation,
> 
>   http://lifewithqmail.org/lwq.html#create-users
> 
> ...but goes back to at least 1998, and likely earlier. I grepped the
> source and don't see any obvious uses of $HOME. It was probably
> suggested by DJB simply because it's a directory, and guaranteed to
> exist on the various platforms that qmail supported at the time.

I have tested it without a home directory on 2 of my machines and it seems 
like it works fine. I have removed the home directory from the patches.

Greetings,

Eike