On 04/06/2008, at 6:57 PM, Antonio Huete Jimenez wrote:
I don't think that costs too much effort and I think it would be even a nice feature.
Why should we have separate ABS tree for each operating system? That sound a lot of more effort. But well, this is just an opinion.
Cheers, Antonio Huete
Because there are differences in operating systems. I hate to say this, but it's not KISS. Having an extra variable in there like that would add ambiguity and confusion. When --prefix=/usr is used it's obvious that it's going into /usr, that's not the case with --prefix="$ {PREFIX}". Also with some Makefiles DESTDIR is used, so we'd have to use `make DESTDIR="$pkgdir${PREFIX}" install`. Some files go into /var and other directories, that aren't under a common prefix, so imo it's just too complicated and confusing to do that.