On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote: > Il 19/03/2012 17:20, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto: > > Anyway, even if we decide that package name shouldn't be changed: why > > changing mandir, > > This one is because all manpages are under /usr/man/manSECT > > > docdir and datadir doesn't require changing the package > > name, but changing /etc/qemu has to? > > The pedantic answer is "because our meaning of --datadir differ from the > one of autotools", and it cannot really be changed because it would > break backwards-compatibility. However, I guess that's not an entirely > satisfying answer. > > However, the package name and the directory suffix need not be exactly > the same. Why don't you add --with-conf-suffix or something like that, > and make it apply to both datadir and sysconfdir?
That would work. I don't care about the package name, I just want to allow the config path to be configured. Why were we all assuming that the configuration path suffix has to match the package name, in the first place? I mean, autotools don't prohibit software from looking at a /etc subdirectories /etc/PACKAGE, right? Deciding where exactly to look is out of the scope of autotools, isn't it? It's just configurable Qemu behavior. -- Eduardo
