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Re: [PATCH] Install config files
- From: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- To: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, ams at gnu dot org
- Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 14:34:57 +1000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Install config files
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On 09/02/14 07:06, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday, February 08, 2014 11:08:45 Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>> I find it quite iffy when `make install' in any source tree starts
>> touching anything in SYSCONFDIR...
>
> this is par for the course when it comes to packaging
Precisely. For all the packages I handle in Arch Linux, glibc is really
an outlier in terms of requiring its configuration files to be manually
installed.
Does anyone really do a "make install" onto the root of their system anyway?
Allan