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Date:      Sat, 17 Jul 2004 21:54:34 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src Makefile
Message-ID:  <20040718045434.GA4487@dhcp50.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <p06110413bd1fa05bdc86@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <200407180119.i6I1JXbc068263@repoman.freebsd.org> <p06110413bd1fa05bdc86@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Sat, Jul 17, 2004 at 11:37:43PM -0400, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> At 1:19 AM +0000 7/18/04, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >  FreeBSD src repository
> >
> >  Modified files:
> >    .                    Makefile
> >  Log:
> >  Add an "out" to the now required BS of defining DESTDIR.
> 
> How about something a little shorter and more descriptive of
> what it is controlling? Say, "ALLOW_PLAIN_MAKE_WORLD" instead
> of          "I_KNOW_WHAT_IM_DOING_THANKYOU_VERY_MUCH"

Any such option is totally unnecessary because you only have to add
DESTDIR?=/ to /etc/make.conf to get the old behaviour back.

This also demonstrates that the people who scream the loudest that
hey know what they're doing very often do not.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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