On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:42:52AM -0600, Victor Lowther wrote: > > I guess the point is, to make pm-utils installable with a different prefix. > > E.g. software that is installed via "./configure && make && make > > install" usually ends up in /usr/local by default (to not mess with > > packages installed by the distribution). It would not be a bad thing > > to give the user the choice to install the package where he likes it. > > ^^^^^^ > Michael nailed the point.
But then we should yell loudly in logs etc. if we find such a nonstandard location. And write into some documentation, that distributions are required to install in /usr. Otherwise support issues will be - ahem - ugly. Yes, i am unpleasant here, because i have seen too much trouble because of such "good" ideas. -- Stefan Seyfried R&D Team Mobile Devices | "Any ideas, John?" SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nürnberg | "Well, surrounding them's out." This footer brought to you by insane German lawmakers: SUSE Linux Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
