Re: GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT separated from GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Sunday, February 18, 2001, at 01:50 PM, Nicola Pero wrote:

>  
> Matthias Klose asked me if it would be possible to allow the 
> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT to be completely separated from the 
> GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT, ie in Debian they want to do something like -  
>  
> GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT = /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/ 
> GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT  = /usr/local/lib/GNUstep/Local/ 
>  
> Because it seems their filesystem policies do not like having the 
> Local root under /usr/ - they want it under /usr/local/. 
>  
> Any points against this change ?  
>  
> Any complicated stuff to do to make it work you are aware of ? 
>  
> A different GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT would be triggered by using an option 
> to configure gnustep-make.  The weird GNUSTEP_LOCAL_ROOT would be 
> somewhat saved into your GNUstep.sh. 
>  
> Would this change break something in the bundle code ? 

I see not problem with it.
Actually, I'm not sure whether GNUstep.sh should be setting these environment
variables ... perhaps it should leave them alone if they are already set up?