Re: [Nmh-workers] 1.7's `make clean' is Overzealous.

[Ken Hornstein]

>If we were to follow that recommendation for sysconfdir, the three
>variables would have the package name appended, if the packager
>wants to for sysconfdir, in three different places:
>
>    dir        what appends pkg name?    can packager override?
>    =======    ======================    ======================
>    libexec    package                   no: hard-coded
>    sysconf    packager                  yes, at configure time
>    docs       autoconf                  yes, at install time

Just so I'm clear, it seems to me that you can override the doc directory
by the use of --docdir, right?

>What a mess.  So I think that we should go against the
>recommendations for sysconfdir, along with openssh and everything
>else with /etc/pkgname/.  (sudo doesn't need to, so it turned
>out to not be a great example.)

But .... from what you said, openssh does NOT hardcode the 'ssh' append in
their configure.ac/Makefile.* for sysconfdir, it's just their _package_
(e.g., the RPM spec file) that does it, right?  That seems to be following
the GNU recommendations.  I'm trying to see what the problem is with
that.

--Ken