Re: Placement of source file by setup.exe

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:09 PM 11/28/2000, Joost Kraaijeveld wrote:
>Would it be desirable to have setup.exe put the source files of the packages
>in /usr/src or /src instead of in / and assorted other places?
>
>Joost Kraaijeveld
>Askesis B.V.
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>6524NB Nijmegen
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I think Chris has answered, in the past, why the source tarballs are not 
given a specific root path (and end up in "/" by default).  If you want to
modify setup to put these in some user specified root, with an appropriate
default, my guess is that your patch would be duly considered!;-)



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