>Currently we install the etc stuff into ${prefix}/etc, which spams
>/usr/local/etc pretty hard when faced with --prefix=/usr/local.
>Personally, I'm not a fan of the /usr/local/nmh default prefix, and
>would prefer to see it changed to /usr/local, with the configdir
>stuff pushed down a level to $prefix/etc/nmh. (And libexec stuff in
>$prefix/libexec/nmh, etc) I think most people expect things to install
>this way, and just show up in their $PATH (which, presumably, already
>has /usr/local/bin in place).A few nits to this. Technically we install in etc stuff in "sysconfdir", which defaults to $(prefix)/etc. Backend programs SHOULD go in "libexecdir",which defaults to $(exec_prefix)/libexec, but for various dumb historical reasons they go into "libdir" which defaults to $(exec_prefix)/lib. Last time this was brought up by me, here: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/nmh-workers/2012-06/msg00015.html No one really spoke up in favor of changing it. Norm spoke up that he liked it the old way (even though it was causing him man page problems that he ultimately resolved). The problem is as I see it that it's easily changeable on the configure command line, so there's significant inertia to not changing the default. I know, I know ... you're going to say, "people who like it the old way can easily change it". The obvious response to that is, "people who like it the NEW way can easily change it". We're really just arguing about the default here. To me there is no obvious "right" answer. Can you and Norm just have a steel-cage match and the winner gets to pick? That would save us from having to make a decision :-) --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
