Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 01:55:01 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@freefall.cdrom.com> To: jmz@cabri.obs-besancon.fr (Jean-Marc Zucconi) Cc: asami@cs.berkeley.edu, jkh@time.cdrom.com, CVS-commiters@time.cdrom.com, cvs-other@time.cdrom.com Subject: Re: cvs commit: /host/freefall/a/ncvs/ports/lang/forth Makefile Message-ID: <17638.798627301@freefall.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 95 03:59:05 BST." <9504230259.AA16999@cabri.obs-besancon.fr>
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> > the user probably gets a lot more directories in /usr/foo than they > > expected, but that's the breaks. I think the gain is worth it. > > This is where we disagree: I prefer some redondant rules in a Makefile to a lot of empty directories through my disk. But you're the exception case. How many people really set PREFIX to point to somewhere else? I would be willing to bet money that MOST people do not. Therefore, turning extra handsprings to optimize the *non-standard* case does not make sense to me. That may not make YOU feel really happy, I'll readily grant that, but it doesn't make you any less the exception and I don't think that I need to argue the need to make the system as neat as possible where the majority position of users are concerned. Jordanhome | help
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