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.

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