Re: Depending on system install scripts (was Re: [BUGS] COBOL) (fwd)

[Russ Allbery]

Akim Demaille <address@hidden> writes:

> Yes, it is.

> The point being we are *falling* back to our version of the tools, but
> we always try to use what's available on the system.  This is why we
> don't impose GNU fnmatch.c, regex.c, strftime.c etc.  It's almost
> ideological, we are here to cure diseases, and sane bodies must not pay
> our portability tricks.

Plus, it's not inconceivable that the user has a local version of install
that enforces some sort of site policy (perhaps even doing a stow-like
change to the installation directories so that packages are actually
installed into separate per-package directory structures without having to
modify the package Makefiles at all), and that therefore shouldn't be
bypassed unless necessary.

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Russ Allbery (address@hidden)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>