Ken wrote:
> >[David]
> >Different support for libexecdir and sysconfdir is confusing, I
> >think. And I see no reason for it.
>
> Well, fair enough ... but at least one package you mentioned (sudo)
> seems to do exactly that.
sudo doesn't do that, because it doesn't use .../etc/sudo/
> They install files in $(libexecdir)/sudo and $(sysconfdir).
Right, sudo doesn't use $(sysconfdir)/sudo (I agree with them that 2
isn't a "large number"). So there is no need to override a
$(sysconfdir)/sudo at configure time.
> >I don't see why sysconfdir should be any different than libexecdir.
>
> Well, there is precedent there with at least one package;
sudo can't be used as precedent here, because it doesn't use
$sysconfdir/sudo
> But ... what about a compromise? Like I suggested before, we could
> define a precious variable (call it "nmhsysconfdir") and by default
> make it be "${sysconfdir}/nmh".
Makefile.am currently has:
nmhetcdir = @sysconfdir@/nmh
nmhlibexecdir = @libexecdir@/nmh
If you want to tweak things so that they can be overridden at configure
time, great. But I think that we should retain the current default
behavior.
David
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