On Fri, Jul 13, 2012 at 02:43:47AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > There are a *few* packages which have errors when using a DESTDIR, > unless you are root. For the moment, I don't recall any names, but > they try to chown or chgrp some of the files. > > And then there are the variant packages that use INSTALLROOT (from > memory - spelling might be wrong), particularly QT and its users. > Forgot to add that for both of these situations, where I am aware of them (usually, from testing a new version before editing the book) I've put notes in the wiki. I'm sure there are other packages that would benefit from that, but I know most editors don't care about the wiki - for instance, no empty pages for new packages, on which users can write their notes :)
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