On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 10:30:18AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On Mon, Mar 18, 2002 at 09:48:32AM +0000, Edward Avis wrote: > > IMO the idea of installing some stuff in /usr/ and some other stuff in > > /usr/local/ is wrong. > > If the user wants to put libriaries into /opt/moo/cow/wasbi and > programs into /upper/nort/west/downtown, that's their choice. > > In the example I presented, MakeMaker is *not* making the decision to > put files into /usr and /usr/local. Debian is. They sat down and wrote > up a Perl Policy > http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ > > which says $Config{installprefix} is /usr and $Config{siteprefix} is > /usr/local. That's what they decided when they configured Perl and > that's what MakeMaker will stick to unless told otherwise. Don't like > it? Talk to Debian. > > Redhat will do something different. SuSE will do something different. > HP/UX will do something different. Win32 will do something different. > OpenVMS, you can be sure, will do something different. > > > > I think that to be FHS-compliant, MakeMaker > <snip> > > MakeMaker will not make the decision to be FHS compliant. The person > who configured and installed Perl will. > > Let me reiterate. > > 1) Most of the users of MakeMaker do not run Linux. > 1a) A good chunk of them don't even run Unix. > 2) Most *Linuxen* are not even FHS compliant. > 3) Most users are not FHS compliant. :) > > and most importantly > > 4) This is none of our business. > > However the user decides to configure Perl, MakeMaker will attempt to > honor it. Period.
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