On Friday 06 February 2009 13:16:25 David A. Wheeler wrote: > I'd like to add a simple redirection capability to "install" to make > package creation easier. Any objections/comments? Here's some > background... > > Instead of fixing each program, one by one forever, I'd rather automate > it once. At the least, the "install" program should be able to redirect > to another directory, sort-of-like a built-in DESTDIR instead of having > to rewrite everyone's makefile.
broken packages tend to use `cp` and `mkdir` and `mv` and `rm` and `ln` and mkdir-helper scripts. you suggesting those should be changed as well ? simply fixing said package sounds saner to me ... -mike
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