Re: Add redirection to "install" for package managers

[David A. Wheeler]

Mike Frysinger wrote:
> simply fixing said package sounds saner to me ...

Absolutely!  But when I go to package something else, I find the same 
problem.  And the next one.  And the next one.  And the next one.

Whenever I find myself doing the same thing repeatedly, I try to find a 
way to automate it.  Clearly, training developers to use DESTDIR isn't 
working; that convention is ancient history.  So let's automate the 
problem away, at least for a common case.  That's my theory, anyway.

> cp and mkdir and .... you suggesting those be changed as well?

That would be a possibility, but I also understand why that kind of 
invasive change would be strongly resisted.  I will probably just create 
"bogus" versions of those programs which do the redirection, and put 
them at the front of the PATH.

I could create a bogus version of install, too. But in the case of 
install, its SOLE purpose is to install files.  It seems odd that 
install can't automatically handle this common case.  Also, mucking 
around with install means that even someone who invokes /usr/bin/install 
will get the redirection.

--- David A. Wheeler