On quarta-feira, 31 de outubro de 2012 12.23.27, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote: > > 4) new installation paths (besides the bin directory) > > The latest patch I've provided creates a grouping of all arch-dependent > > files in ARCHDATADIR, with arch-independent files in DATADIR. That > > change, by itself, is innocuous since it doesn't produce any difference > > in installation.> > > > > > > The decision we need is on the defaults for those two directories. My > > proposal is to have ARCHDATADIR=LIBDIR/qt5 and DATADIR=PREFIX/share/qt5 > > on Unix build that require make install *only*. Again, there are > > arguments for and against, so let's hear them. > > > > > > -2 > > it's just pointless to change the defaults (because it's trivial for > distros to adjust the paths, and diversity does not hurt in any way), > and it's counterproductive to introduce inconsistency in the defaults > between installed and non-installed builds.
I can accept that we shouldn't change the defaults based on whether we're doing make install or not. The reason I wanted them as the default was so that a minimal "configure -- prefix=/usr" would do the right thing, as most other packages do. That means our instructions to packagers are simpler. They need to pass additional - xxxdir options if they *choose* to according to their distro policies, not because our defaults are incorrect. -- Thiago Macieira - thiago.macieira (AT) intel.com Software Architect - Intel Open Source Technology Center
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