Re: make sysinstall/Makefile.preamble/GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

[Wolfgang Lux]

Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> I think the downside of that is that it's easily accidentally  
> deleted so the information is lost if you check out a new copy etc  
> (you would also need a copy of the file in each subdirectory in the  
> package that you might build from).
>
> I still think forgetting ALL this stuff is the best option... I  
> can't really believe that the total amount of time/energy involved  
> in people occasionally forgetting to install where they meant to  
> install or writing their own scripts is likely to ever exceed the  
> amount of time/energy already spent on considering this.

I agree that we shouldn't invest much time on this issue, hence my
proposal which is by way not perfect (and wasn't meant to be). It is
just a very minimal change to make life easier for those who are
somewhat old fashioned and like to install the core packages in the
system domain (and, hey, I *am* old fashioned; otherwise, I probably
wouldn't be using GNUstep on an Apple machine :-)

Wolfgang