On Sunday, March 17, 2002, at 12:59 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 12:25:52PM +0000, Edward Avis wrote:
>> Possibly $(PREFIX)/share/man would be better to make sure that
>> PREFIX=/usr is FHS-compliant. OTOH this would mean that
>> PREFIX=/opt/whatever would not be FHS-compliant, since that standard
>> specifies /usr/share/man/ but /opt/packagename/man/.
>
> I don't think its MakeMaker's job to enforce Linux FHS standards.
> Especially if you're not running Linux! :)
You know, a confirmation message before installing would work wonders:
I am about to install files in the following location:
Modules: /usr/local/lib/ (13 files)
Man pages: /home/ken/docs/ (5 files)
Or I guess it could happen at 'perl Makefile.PL' time.
-Ken
