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Am Montag, 16. Februar 2009 21:54:51 schrieb Nikos Chantziaras: |
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> It's up the application to decide how to use prefix variable. Most |
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> applications are respecting it. |
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Up to now, I didn't find one that doesn't. And if so, it'll receive a bug |
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report right away. |
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> But you make it sound like it's |
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> impossible to not respect it, which is not true. |
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Well, if you don't, your package won't be spread widely until you've fixed it. |
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You'll always find people who install sw as unprivileged user. If they can't |
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install a package, they file a bug. Even some package managers build and |
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install sw to a temporary directory as an unprivileged user to avoid messing |
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up the system. |
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> I can write automake |
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> rules which completely ignore prefix. |
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Which in the end means the unprivileged user can't install your package. And |
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even as root, I wouldn't. Nobody does this. It's a hipothetical case. |
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Bye... |
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Dirk |
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