Re: new cvs committer, some ideas

On Wed, 18 Jun 2008 09:02:02 EST, Neil W Rickert writes:
>The whole world is not debian.

and i'm not implying that it should be.

>Using subdirectories is not a problem.  Hard wiring those paths
>to what debian uses will great problems for other users.

just for the record i have zero intention to hardcode anything anywhere,
let alone mess up people's installs or defaults.

i'm just trying to make it easier to have such a directory split, should
one want that (or live in a distribution environment where that is required).

>>* explicit paths in #!
>No!  Hell no!

thanks for the vocal response :-)

>You are looking at this from a vendor's perspective.  But you need to
>also consider the after-market users who need to install exmh in a
>place that makes it easily accessible, but which is clearly separated
>from the vendor area of the file system.

my idea was primarily to provide support for the installer to write 
in an explicit path at installation time, not hardcode one of 
my preference.

regards
az


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