On 01/05/2013 03:58 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
I have been thinking about how developers who build their own Racket
are more likely to want installation-wide packages instead of user- and
version-specific packages. This is particularly true for those of us
who work from the git respository.
Maybe the default for a build `configure'd without `--prefix' (or, more
generally, for a non-Unix-style build) should be installation-wide
package installs, while the default for our pre-built distributions
should be user- and version-specific installs.
The default mode would be determined by configuration information in
the installation-specific package area, and something like `raco pkg
config -i default-mode <mode>' could change an installation's default.
Does this sound like a good idea?
I prefer the current defaults :) . If the user knows what he/she is
doing, probably also knows how to install software system-wide. In
Linux/BSD, to use /home/myuser by default for software compiled manually
is always safer for newbies.
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