Re: Behaviour of 'pkg prefix'

[David Bateman]

Søren Hauberg wrote:
> Hi,
>   Currently if I run
>     pkg("prefix", "/some/dir")
> my installation prefix is changed but the architecture dependent prefix
> remains unchanged. I find this counter-intuitive. I would think that the
> above code would set both the architecture dependent and independent
> prefixes. I would find the following API more intuitive:
>     pkg("prefix", "/independent/dir")   :  sets both 'prefix' and
> 'archprefix' to "/independent/dir".
>     pkg("prefix", "/independent/dir", "/dependent/dir")   :  sets
> 'prefix' to "/independent/dir", and 'archprefix' to "/dependent/dir".
>     pkg("prefix", "/independent/dir", "")   :  sets 'prefix' to
> "/independent/dir", and leaves 'archprefix' unchanged.
>     pkg("prefix", "", "/dependent/dir")   :  leaves 'prefix' unchanged,
> and sets 'archprefix' to "/dependent/dir".
> 
> Any thoughts?
> Søren
> 
> 

Sure, why not... What to patch it :-)

D.