On Oct 21, 2012, at 20:13 16, Gregg Wonderly wrote: > In those cases, the right heuristic would either find the answer, or stop and > prompt for the directory.
Stopping and prompting isn't an option, not in a make target. That process (as well as 'configure') are designed to be driven by automated systems like rpmbuild(1); there is an explicit design requirement that they *not* require user input after being started. While I suppose it could be possible to craft yet another script that calculates this information in a manner that could be passed to 'configure', the more I think about it the less I like it. Beyond the fact that we are really at the point of diminishing returns here, remember that this is configuration data that we are talking about (as opposed to software components proper); hence, a good argument could be made that it *shouldn't* be installed automatically (and perhaps inadvertently overwrite a custom configuration). There are many other FOSS packages that follow precisely this policy WRT to configuration data; MySQL and Samba are two that come to mind immediately. Cheers! |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| | A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern. | | -- Edgar A. Shoaff | |-------------------------------------------------------------------------| _______________________________________________ Rivendell-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rivendellaudio.org/mailman/listinfo/rivendell-dev
