On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Johannes Löthberg <kyr...@archlinux.info> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > > On 02/23/2013 09:22 PM, David Adler wrote: >> >> On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Johannes Löthberg >> <kyr...@archlinux.info> wrote: >>> >>> On 02/23/2013 08:41 PM, David Adler wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> To the contrary, having it installed to a not user-writable >>>> place might distract from the fact that this example-preset >>>> exists to (and often even needs to) be customised. >>> >>> >>> >>> If it's just an example, wouldn't it make more sense to just >>> install it to /usr/share for the user to copy it to where he >>> wants it? >> >> >> That's how it was handled up to now, installed to /usr/share. I'd >> have to find a way to install an entire directory tree, including >> lots of files and some empty dirs, without maintaining >> Makefile.am's and such for every dir. Maybe I'm missing something >> and there's a simple way to recursively install a directory tree. >> Despite using google and reading quite a few docs on make and >> autools I didn't find a simple solution. Pointers are welcome. >> Installing it to /usr/share as a packed tarball would not give any >> benefit IMHO. >> >> This is sort of an upstream issue. As things are now, I see no way >> to easily have it installed. If this changes in the future, I'll >> upload a new package; for now I suggest it be deleted. >> >> >> cheers >> > > Wait, do you need to actually do anything with the files before > installing, or does it just copy the files when running make install?
Just copying. As simple as it sounds, I didn't find a simple solution, but it's not unlikely that I'm missing the obvious. regards