On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 09:48:18AM +0100, Andreas Aardal Hanssen wrote: > On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Jeremy Kitchen wrote: > >then how come it's in /opt and not /usr/local ? isn't /opt mainly for > >binary-only packages? > > /opt/<package> is in FHS for the entire content packages that are not part > of the distro, except host-specific configuration data which goes into > /etc/opt/<package>. The /var/opt area is not defined specificly, but Binc > IMAP uses /var/opt/<package> for log data and now also the daemontools > service-files. > > >> >Updating the --help would be excellent, so I can determine what flags I > >> >need to pass to configure to do what I want :) > >> Yeah, now if only autoconf had been sliightly more user-friendly ;-). > >HAH! autoconf user-friendly? what a concept! > > Hehe ;-). > > I would seriously consider though, replacing autoconf for something > simpler; there are other build systems out there but I didn't look at any > yet.
So, what about switching to DJB's /package installation hierarchy <URL:http://cr.yp.to/slashpackage.html> together with replacing autoconf? Since you wrote Binc IMAP with so many of DJB's good principles in mind, why not make use of these two, too? Regards, Thomas
