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Subject: Re: What use is WWWDIR_REL?
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On 02/10/2012 17:57, rflynn@acsalaska.net wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>>>> Clearly I'm missing something then, because I don't see how they
>>>> accomplish anything useful. Perhaps you can enlighten me? There is
>>>> nothing in the CVS log that even mentions them, never mind why they were
>>>> added (bad portmgr, no cookie!).
> 
> In theory they're useful for:
> post-install:
>      @(cd ${PREFIX} && foo-magic ${WWWDIR_REL} ${DATADIR_REL})
> 
> But if this only happens in theory, there's no use in keeping it around.

Did you see my original post in this thread?



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