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Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous.
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Ken Hornstein |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous. |
Date: |
Thu, 07 Dec 2017 19:57:59 -0500 |
>I think GNU's gospel includes /etc.
>
> https://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/html_node/Directory-Variables.html
>
> If your program installs a large number of files into one of the
> standard user-specified directories, it might be useful to group
> them into a subdirectory particular to that program. If you do
> this, you should write the install rule to create these
> subdirectories.
I understand their point, but we could say the same thing about $(bindir)
and I don't think anyone is suggesting we default to installing all
of the executables in $(bindir)/nmh (unless maybe we are?).
I guess my real question is ... should this decision be made by a
packaging system, or should we enforce it always? I'm totally fine with
an nmh RPM/deb/BSD port/Homebrew recipe doing --sysconfir=/etc/nmh, or
whatever. What gives me pause is us enforcing that without giving the
user a chance to overrride it; that was the point of Steve Winikoff's
original email, and that was the change in behavior from 1.6 that I
don't think was really fully understood at the time it was implemented.
--Ken
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., (continued)
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- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ken Hornstein, 2017/12/05
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., David Levine, 2017/12/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ken Hornstein, 2017/12/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., David Levine, 2017/12/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ken Hornstein, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous.,
Ken Hornstein <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/12/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., David Levine, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., David Levine, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ken Hornstein, 2017/12/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., David Levine, 2017/12/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ken Hornstein, 2017/12/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/12/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ralph Corderoy, 2017/12/08
- Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous., Ken Hornstein, 2017/12/08