On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Johannes Löthberg <kyrias@archlinux.info> wrote:
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On 02/23/2013 09:22 PM, David Adler wrote:
On Sat, Feb 23, 2013 at 8:55 PM, Johannes Löthberg <kyrias@archlinux.info> wrote:
On 02/23/2013 08:41 PM, David Adler wrote:
To the contrary, having it installed to a not user-writable place might distract from the fact that this example-preset exists to (and often even needs to) be customised.
If it's just an example, wouldn't it make more sense to just install it to /usr/share for the user to copy it to where he wants it?
That's how it was handled up to now, installed to /usr/share. I'd have to find a way to install an entire directory tree, including lots of files and some empty dirs, without maintaining Makefile.am's and such for every dir. Maybe I'm missing something and there's a simple way to recursively install a directory tree. Despite using google and reading quite a few docs on make and autools I didn't find a simple solution. Pointers are welcome. Installing it to /usr/share as a packed tarball would not give any benefit IMHO.
This is sort of an upstream issue. As things are now, I see no way to easily have it installed. If this changes in the future, I'll upload a new package; for now I suggest it be deleted.
cheers
Wait, do you need to actually do anything with the files before installing, or does it just copy the files when running make install?
Just copying. As simple as it sounds, I didn't find a simple solution, but it's not unlikely that I'm missing the obvious. regards