On Fri, 30 May 2008 19:15:20 +0300 "Alon Bar-Lev" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Because you've never bothered caring about the whole "symlinks are > > unportable" issue. > > I knew I would be sorry to reply. > Again, you are thinking you know everything and enforce this on your > peers. If going to run on systems that don't support symlinks, one > can test symlink support in autoconf and behaves correctly at > automake hook (copy instead of link). > Anyway, there is no reason to place exact files in source tarball.
The reason is that so long as we use autotools, it's easiest to do what
we do. If you care about it enough to send a patch, do so.
> > > There is no reason to distribute only one, and create links using
> > > install-hook.
> >
> > Which is a pain in the ass, because then we also need to make
> > uninstall hooks. We're doing this for hooks, and it's a horrid mess.
>
> XXX=f1 f2 f3 f4
> install-exec-hook:
> for $$f in $(XXX); do...
> uninstall-local:
> for $$f in $(XXX); do rm "$(DESTDIR)/whatever/$${f}"; done
Doesn't parallelise.
> > Which is why you make a package that installs your syncers there.
> > Or, if they're for personal use, you use a packageless package to
> > install your syncers.
>
> Again... you are trying to enforce your views on your users.
> What if I don't want to use packageless overhead?
Then deal with keeping track of installing them in /usr yourself.
> Should I also use packageless overhead to modify my /usr/local/bin
> scripts, instead of keeping only one copy of these?
That's entirely up to you. It's generally a good idea to do so though,
yes.
> Anyway... Why people introduced the /usr/local/? I guess they are
> stupid.
Except that /usr/local for user-defined things is no good, because
Paludis will run quite happily built with --prefix=/usr/local. So yes,
using /usr/local when --prefix=/usr is extremely stupid.
> You can hard code /usr/local/share/paludis if you like, but
> providing configurable locations should be simple.
Simple, but pointless. We have configuration options where they're
useful.
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Ciaran McCreesh
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