Re: DJB slashpackage

[Heikki Korpela <heko@iki.fi>]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, David Lebel wrote:

> No binaries actually "hard-code" that
> directory.

Yes, I was aware of that. I did a grep -r '/' in the source after
hearing about slashpackage issues, of course. :-)

> You use what you want to use.

Okay, so you only have to change things in package/, or perhaps forget
about them alltogether. After all, the compilation makefile is
quite ok as it is so all one has to worry about is ${INSTALL}ing
the stuff and configuring and running it.

> > Another is that you probably get a lot less support from djb's mailing
> > lists if you don't use his packaging conventions.
> People on djb's mailing lists are for the most parts very helpful and
> apart from djb, they don't discriminate.

Ah. I don't personally subscribe to the lists - I just got this
impression from Nick's post; sorry for being assumptive and jumping
into conclusions. :-)