Re: Changing the defaults for --localstatedir and --sysconfdir?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> At this point I think defaulting
>> to /var and /etc would do more good than harm.
>
> Are those the only defaults that should change?  These are the only ones
> we are actively using, but perhaps it would be confusing to have
> --prefix still point to /usr/local whereas --localstatedir and
> --sysconfdir point to something appropriate for --prefix=/.

Good point.  Maybe we should in fact change the default prefix instead
of just localstatedir and sysconfdir?

Ludo’.