On Friday 27 January 2012 16:21:21 W. Trevor King wrote:
> I'm curious abotu why econf uses
>
> "${EPREFIX}"/var/libmy understanding is that from our sampling of packages over time, it seemed more common for upstream to expect this to be a path where they would dump state into. so if we used /var, packages would use /var/foo/ to store their crap which really belongs in /var/lib/foo/. either default is a crap one, so we went with the default that requires less ebuilds to specify --localstatedir themselves. and at this point, it's not really possible to change the behavior with EAPI, and trying to change it in a newer EAPI violates the principle of least surprise. -mike
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