On 4/26/07, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:41:46PM -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: > > One of these days we should start doing the role="install" markup in > > the book like we talked about so long ago. That would prevent things > > like searching for a command named "make install", but not "make > > install-libs". > > If we're going to go this far, we may as well make use of a DESTDIR > style install approach. Would be far easier than searching the entire > tree for files with a certain timestamp.
Although I love DESTDIR, I think it's actually a separate issue here. Just marking the source in a particular way doesn't force any action on anybody. Using a DESTDIR is by far the best way to find and handle installed files from a package, but using it brings along a lot of other issues that would require many changes to the book. We can still open up a lot of possibilities just by tagging the XML without any effect on the book or 95% of users. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/alfs-discuss FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
