>>>>> "Alexandre" == Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alexandre> 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.
Alexandre> I still think it would be easy enough for folks to want to
Alexandre> keep configuration files in /etc to explicitly say so.
Alexandre> Introducing this nonuniformity may just open a can of
Alexandre> worms, with people suggesting other ``niceties'' that are
Alexandre> ``obviously what the installed had in mind''. I'd rather
Alexandre> have it explicitly. At the very least, to reduce the
Alexandre> number of special cases that autoconf would have to deal
Alexandre> with, and to reduce confusion in case of different packages
Alexandre> using different versions of autoconf and thus behaving
Alexandre> differently because of these changes.
I second Alexandre.
The idea sounds good, that's clear.
But French people have a saying: ``Better is the enemy of Good''. The
more magic, the more code, the more documentation to read, the more
obscure cases, the more surprising effects etc. (Hm, is this an
English sentence?).
