Re: gettext

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Alfred M. Szmidt) writes:
> > Automake will probably continue to support both methods forever
> > (barring some newly-discovered fundamental flaw with one or the
> > other).  I recommend others do likewise.  It doesn't seem difficult.
> 
> Using prefix is just stupid when you have changed a bunch of paths and
> need to install everything in one directory (like when using stow),
> this is what DESTDIR is used for.

What exactly is your point?  DESTDIR is certainly more convenient for
many cases, but it's not powerful enough to handle all of them; what Tom
recommends -- supporting both -- seems eminently sensible.

> On an different note, you (Tom) might want to fix it so that
> spamassasin doesn't tag your mail as spam. :)

Interestingly enough, my personal scripts didn't tag Tom's mail as spam,
but it _did_ tag yours as such (because you included `*****SPAM*****'
in the subject line).

-Miles
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