> 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. >
I agree.
