%% 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
pd> I agree completely. This kind of obscure special casing is
pd> always surprising, and that's not a Good Thing IMO.
Same with me. We are now quite trained on this topic: too much
intelligence in the options means to much to learn, to much to code,
and too many ways to have the user shoot herself in the foot.
I'm OK with having as many --foodir as people might want (and
actually, I'd like to suggest that we recommend
./configure prefix=/usr
etc. instead of
./configure --prefix=/usr
because that's the only scheme which is truly open and will make it
possible to have all the versions of Autoconf understand these
options, but that's another issue)...
So, I'm OK with having as many --foodir as people might want, but
simple ones. Orthogonality must be preferred.
