> On Fri, 27 Jan 2012, W. Trevor King wrote:
> I'm curious abotu why econf uses
> "${EPREFIX}"/var/lib
> for the default value of localstatedir, when the GNU coding
> standards [1] and autoconf site default examples [2] both suggest
> $(prefix)/var
Right, and their $(prefix) defaults t
On Friday 27 January 2012 16:21:21 W. Trevor King wrote:
> I'm curious abotu why econf uses
>
> "${EPREFIX}"/var/lib
my 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 use