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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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Is this the right thing to do? |
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$ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local && make |
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# make install |
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- Grant |
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