On 1 Jun 2015 08:45, "Nick Sabalausky via Digitalmars-d" < [email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/01/2015 01:57 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote: >> >> On 1 June 2015 at 15:05, Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d >>> >>> That's not really how you use dub though. dub simply isn't a good fit for >>> >>> people who want it to be a system package manager. Its goals are different. >>> If people want that they should work on getting libraries added to their >>> preferred system's package registries. >> >> >> Right, so, someone decide a path, we'll write it on dlang.org, and >> then everyone will agree and fall in line :) >> > > Not sure how serious/joking you are about that, but when has declaring a standard whatever like that ever worked for anything ever? ;) Linux can't even agree with Linux on where things should go, apparently that's why C on linux has pkg-config. >
Leave it to the distribution is the safe option in my experience. To have something along the lines of what Manu wants, I guess we need something like virtualenv to allow building in a clean/standard environment.
