%% Alexandre Oliva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  >> * Is the advantage big enough to justify the incompatible change
  >> of saying "You can't specify the prefix when you run Make"?

This should always be explicitly _allowed_ during "make install", as
long as "make" has been done first.

Either that, or DESTDIR should become a required feature of GNU
installation.

Actually, I kind of prefer the latter.

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