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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure
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Eduardo Habkost |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure |
Date: |
Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:02:32 -0300 |
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Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) |
On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 19/03/2012 17:20, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
> > Anyway, even if we decide that package name shouldn't be changed: why
> > changing mandir,
>
> This one is because all manpages are under /usr/man/manSECT
>
> > docdir and datadir doesn't require changing the package
> > name, but changing /etc/qemu has to?
>
> The pedantic answer is "because our meaning of --datadir differ from the
> one of autotools", and it cannot really be changed because it would
> break backwards-compatibility. However, I guess that's not an entirely
> satisfying answer.
>
> However, the package name and the directory suffix need not be exactly
> the same. Why don't you add --with-conf-suffix or something like that,
> and make it apply to both datadir and sysconfdir?
That would work. I don't care about the package name, I just want to
allow the config path to be configured. Why were we all assuming that
the configuration path suffix has to match the package name, in the
first place?
I mean, autotools don't prohibit software from looking at a /etc
subdirectories /etc/PACKAGE, right? Deciding where exactly to look is
out of the scope of autotools, isn't it? It's just configurable Qemu
behavior.
--
Eduardo