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From: Mark Loeser <halcy0n@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir
Date: Sun, 17 May 2009 18:58:02
Message-Id: 20090517185747.GB18294@aerie.halcy0n.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir by William Hubbs
1 William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> said:
2 > I was told by the brltty developers that localstatedir should be /var.
3 > I noticed, however, that econf passes --localstatedir=/var/lib to the
4 > configure script. The way around this was to pass the --localstatedir
5 > option to econf.
6
7 According to FHS we are doing it right:
8 http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION
9
10 I guess what I would really like to know is...why does it matter? If
11 something is configurable like that, then it should work regardless of
12 what is put in.
13
14 --
15 Mark Loeser
16 email - halcy0n AT gentoo DOT org
17 email - mark AT halcy0n DOT com
18 web - http://www.halcy0n.com

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: information on localstatedir William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>