Re: make sysinstall/Makefile.preamble/GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 19 Dec 2008, at 07:32, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> On 18 Dec 2008, at 19:58, Nicola Pero wrote:
>
> > Let me know if there is any agreement on other pieces of software  
> > to include.   Maybe we should
> > include everything that is in the GNUstep subversion repository ?   
> > I was hoping for a smaller
> > list, but at least that would provide an objective way to decide.
>
> I'm not in favor of this really for any packages ... I'd like not to  
> have support for this cluttering anything.
> Admittedly the clutter is really trivial, but I see no benefit to it.


Sorry ... too short.

What I suggest is:
1. Unwind any changes to any packages to do with this ... intrusive  
changes to packages merely to support a installation location makes  
little sense.
2. Produce a different mechanism if you really want a mechanism for  
this at all.

For instance, you could have a file listing the projects you want to  
install in the system domain, and gnustep-make could consult that file  
to decide where to install each project ...
eg. if it's got to install a project X, it ooks up X in it's config  
file, and if it should you in domain Y then it sets  
GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN to Y before proceeding.
This would avoid the issue of having to decide which projects are  
'core' (which is not something the developer/maintainer of the project  
should be doing).