On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:01:47PM +0100, Bart Blanquart wrote: > The option to make the transformations configurable could be useful > for other os.o distributions that have a different layout (changing a > configuration file is easier to maintain than changing something in > the source tree) and, come to think of it, might this not be useful > for anyone delivering executables and manpages?
If they wanted to put executables and manpages in willy-nilly places, sure. But is there any real need to support that kind of installation? How often do you envision such a situation being required, rather than just being a mistake in how a component is integrated? Is ../man or ../share/man really going to be an issue all that often, particularly if that directory could be a symlink to the real one (as in Mike's /opt/VRTSvlic/bin /opt/VRTS/man example)? Rope is great and all, but there's no need to deliver it in pre-made nooses. Danek
