%% Alex Hornby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ah> Richard Stallman writes:
>> I think we need to ask the community of developers what they would
>> think of this change. It sounds good, but it could have pitfalls
>> we have not thought of.
>>
>> Would someone like to do that?
ah> I dislike the idea of this kind of hard coding. I'd much rather use
ah> ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc
I agree completely. This kind of obscure special casing is always
surprising, and that's not a Good Thing IMO.
I say just leave the sysconfdir default as ${prefix}/etc (or whatever).
Better than trying to guess what the user wants behind her back, would
be to add a note or section to the default INSTALL file specifying how
she might install a GNU package in "root" rather than /usr/local, with
an example such as Alex gives above.
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