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Re: [RFC] Package build time config for installation directories.



On Sun, Nov 05, 2000 at 03:39:41PM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >>"Raul" == Raul Miller <moth@debian.org> writes:

>  Raul> Uh.. to the best of my knowledge, most packages which use these
>  Raul> paths "hard code" them in some file.  Maybe you're suggesting

> 	Really? I find I seldom have to use full path names for
>  binaries (I expect ls, grep, et al to be in the PATH, as they
>  should). I *NEVER* hard code the so called sbindir; and I think that
>  scripts should not, precisely for this reason.

What about configuration files and other data?

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