On Wednesday 28 July 2004 20:44 CET Michael G Schwern wrote:
> Here's the standard work arounds:
>
> 1) Don't bother with the distinction between bin and sbin (its kinda
> arbitrary IMHO) just put everything in bin.
I once tried to abuse INST_BIN for installations to sbin (as that one isn't
used anyway). Which resulted in loads of nasty hacks, in the end I just
told the packagers "if you want to have the dameon in sbin, move it
manually" :)
> 2) Instead of putting config files in /etc, make the config files a
> .pm file and install it like one. See Net::Config as an example.
If that doesn't work for you, have a look at the current Mail::SpamAssassin
Makefile.PL. It's horrible, it's huge, but it works with /etc, even guesses
reasonable defaults.
>[...]
> As a final note, if you're finding MakeMaker too hard to customize try
> Module::Build.
Cheers,
Malte
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