On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 11:54 PM, Allan McRae <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/02/11 01:43, Dan McGee wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 8:59 AM, Cedric Staniewski<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> The current behaviour, which is placing source packages in PKGDEST if >>> SRCPKGDEST is not set, is inconsistent with {SRC,PKG}DEST handling and >>> there is no real advantage in doing so. >> >> Other than preserving backward compatibility and the way it has worked >> for 2-3 years... >> >> I don't have a super strong opinion, but to pretend like this isn't on >> purpose is not true at all. >> > > I will give this an ack... > > Mainly because, if I wanted to set PKGDEST and keep SRCPKGDEST as the > default (when both PKGDEST and SRCPKGDEST are unset - i.e. $startdir), it > would not be obvious how to do this. > > And even though it is documented in the man page under SRCPKGDEST, it is not > particularly obvious that adjusting PKGDEST will affect SRCPKGDEST.
OK, I'll concede. -Dan
