From owner-cvs-other Sun Apr 23 01:55:17 1995 Return-Path: cvs-other-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA17660 for cvs-other-outgoing; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 01:55:17 -0700 Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [192.216.223.46]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA17650 ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 01:55:08 -0700 Received: from freefall.cdrom.com (freefall.cdrom.com [192.216.222.4]) by time.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) with ESMTP id BAA18633; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 01:57:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with SMTP id BAA17639 ; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 01:55:02 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.cdrom.com: Host localhost didn't use HELO protocol 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 In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 23 Apr 95 03:59:05 BST." <9504230259.AA16999@cabri.obs-besancon.fr> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 01:55:01 -0700 Message-ID: <17638.798627301@freefall.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: cvs-other-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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. Jordan