Re: [PEAR-DEV] RFC : pear metadata location.

No serious objections from anyone by the sounds of it.


On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Remi Collet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> pear/pecl stores its metadata under "installdir" / "php_dir"
>
>         .channels
>         .depdb
>         .filemap
>         .registry
>
> Under linux, according to FHS, this metadata should not be in this
> location.
>
> Goal : allow to use different location, such as:
>
> /usr/share/pear for php file installation (in the PHP include_path)
> /var/lib/pear   for the metadata
>
>
> Proposal :
> Create a new configuration option "metadata_dir" which allow to
> explicitly set this location. Of course, default value will be the same
> as actually.
>
>
> I will prefer some feedback before working on this change an submitting
> a pull request on github.
>
>
> Regards,
> Remi.
>
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