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Re: How to become very unpopular. (or:) A scary story.



On Sat, 18 Aug 2001, Adam Heath wrote:

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> If a package doesn't support DESTDIR(or some other means of altnernate
> installation dir support), I seriously consider NOT packaging it.  If the
> software is cool enough, however, I generally try to patch it to support
> DESTDIR.  But then, if it is cool enough, why weren't the authors capable of
> adding DESTDIR support themselves?

Mentioning this never harms...

(once had that too. Just mentioned upstream that "DESTDIR seems pretty
standard", next version had it...)

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