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Re: Which variable expands to /var?
From: |
Ralf Wildenhues |
Subject: |
Re: Which variable expands to /var? |
Date: |
Fri, 8 Feb 2008 23:24:00 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Hello Bob,
* Bob Friesenhahn wrote on Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 09:07:14PM CET:
> On Fri, 8 Feb 2008, Eric Blake wrote:
>
> >Thanks for the feedback. I withdraw my support for a --with-fhs option;
> >instead, I'm adding this to the manual:
>
> It seems to me that the documentation should include a warning that OS
> distributions should not provide a default config.site file with this
> content or else users will accidentally overwrite formally packaged
> tools.
I'm not sure I understand. With this config.site file, you still have
to `./configure --prefix=/usr' in order for the changes to apply. But
then, even without the config.site file, users will generally overwrite
packages tools.
Of course I agree that default config.site files are problematic for the
plain reason that they alter behavior in a way not documented by --help.
Cheers,
Ralf
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, (continued)
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Paul Smith, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Keith Marshall, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Brian Dessent, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Eric Blake, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?,
Ralf Wildenhues <=
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/02/08
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Ralf Wildenhues, 2008/02/07
- Re: Which variable expands to /var?, Bob Friesenhahn, 2008/02/07