On 18 November 2014 19:25, Greg Reagle <greg.rea...@umbc.edu> wrote: > Hello. Is there a particular reason that a combination of cp, mkdir, > and chmod are used rather than the install command, in several suckless > projects (in the install target of Makefile)?
To me the answer is rather obvious. install violates the Unix principle, because it does too many things, that are achieved already by cp, mkdir, chmod, etc. BR, Anselm