On Sep 2, 2000, Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So prefix=/usr leads to syconfidir=/etc, but prefix=/usr/gnu (not my
> idea) leads to sysconfdir=/usr/gnu/config? Ugh.
> This nonuniformity is precisely the intent. When prefix is a
> subdirectory of /usr, such as /usr/local, people are likely to be
> unhappy with installing the configuration files into /etc.
> But when prefix is /usr, that means the programs are being installed
> as first-class citizens and their config files ought to go in /etc.
I still think it would be easy enough for folks to want to keep
configuration files in /etc to explicitly say so. Introducing this
nonuniformity may just open a can of worms, with people suggesting
other ``niceties'' that are ``obviously what the installed had in
mind''. I'd rather have it explicitly. At the very least, to reduce
the number of special cases that autoconf would have to deal with, and
to reduce confusion in case of different packages using different
versions of autoconf and thus behaving differently because of these
changes.
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