On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 15:34, Matthew Knepley <knepley at gmail.com> wrote:
> Which breaks things that bake in the install directory name. And some > packages have a workaround > and some don't, which is again a less than robust way to operate and I > think will create more headaches > than it solves. > Every package that has ever been packaged for a distro has been shoehorned into this model. There are ways to trick actively hostile packages. DESTDIR is available for most packages, especially those that hard-code the destination directory. This is a problem that so many other people have solved that it's foolish to say it's unworkable. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.mcs.anl.gov/pipermail/petsc-dev/attachments/20110830/ddb2fb9f/attachment.html>