On Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:25:42 -0500 "Dustin J. Mitchell" <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 6:29 PM, Charles Curley > <[email protected]> wrote: > > That resulted in: > > > > Configuration: /etc/amanda > > > > but the directory wasn't built. It would be nice if the installation > > process built it. > > I'm not entirely convinced of this -- I consider it the package's job > to create stuff like that, and my impression is that's the pattern > followed by most applications. I thought about that after I sent it. Of course if "make install" builds it in the course of building for a package, it is a harmless redundancy. But in this case, I was building from the tarball, so no package was involved. -- Charles Curley /"\ ASCII Ribbon Campaign Looking for fine software \ / Respect for open standards and/or writing? X No HTML/RTF in email http://www.charlescurley.com / \ No M$ Word docs in email Key fingerprint = CE5C 6645 A45A 64E4 94C0 809C FFF6 4C48 4ECD DFDB
