My next suggestion for 2.0 was actually going to be that we rename "radiusd.conf" to "freeradius.conf" (or freeradiusd.conf) and "etc/raddb" to "etc/freeradius" as default. Does this suit you? (A simple rename of radiusd.conf on upgrade is not particularly difficult, given that many options on the config file have also changed)
Our default prefix should probably change from /usr/local to /opt/freeradius/ also in keeping with LSB. (Although I understand that this may be a slightly controversal change)
In case no one else decides to chime in here with sanity and reason... /usr/local is the "right" place for default installation - not only because it's the right place (and it definitely is), but because that is where it's been thus far and people have gotten used to it. If some third party decides to repackage freeradius to confirm to their own fly-by-night naming convension, they should be the ones responsible for apologizing to their userbase and fixing the bugs that arise as a result of the transition. Developer time is never well spent on fixing bugs associated with such useless operations as renaming config files or moving paths. Plus, there are plenty of Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD boxes out there that very happily run freeradius out of /usr/local, why force some stupid linux convention on them? <rant> lsb / fhs - Just because some people with no clue, no experience, and too much free time decided to put out a "standard" doesn't mean that the rest of the world must follow such idiocy. </rant>