Il 19/03/2012 16:43, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto: > > No, I'm not suggesting --package-name, I'm suggesting that qemu-kvm > > would carry a patch to configure that changed a fixed PACKAGE_NAME > > define. > > Are you really suggesting that forcing downstream to carry a patch is > better than having a configure option?
Not downstream as in RHEL; downstream as in qemu-kvm which is a fork anyway. > If you suggest making it configurable using a variable on the 'make' > command-line it would be OK, but I kind of hoped that no modern software > project would ever require packagers to use configure-by-sed methods to > set build parameters. I think the package name is a pretty special case. Even with autotools, it's pretty much the only thing that requires configure-by-sed to change it. Paolo
