Re: GNUSTEP_INSTALLATION_DOMAIN

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 12 Oct 2006, at 21:43, David Ayers wrote:

> Nicola Pero schrieb:
>
> > > > Anyway I suggest as a reasonable agreement, we'll use b. to set
> > > > the installation domain as System for the 4 core packages (make,
> > > > base, gui, back). All other packages should have no default set
> > > > and so install by default in Local (packagers are encouraged to
> > > > install them into System instead when they package though). Makes
> > > > sense ?
> > >
> > > No ... not really.  The System domain is for all system packages,  
> > > not
> > > just a few core libraries.
> >
> > I agree ... but who decides what are the system packages ?  Not  
> > us. :-)
> >
> > It's decided by the packagers. ;-)
>
> Indeed, and I believe this is the core argument.
>
> The way I see it is, installing a self compiled -make and -base  
> into the
> Local domain (potentially hiding the packager installation in the  
> System
> domain) is analogous to installing a self compiled gcc into /usr/local
> hiding the system gcc (and related libraries like libobjc).

Yes ... it's why I think there should be a distinction made between  
building/installing a package as the maintainter of a distribution  
and building/installing as a normal user.  In both cases the package  
should automatically be installed in the correct place.  The normal  
case should be that you do *not* have to specify where it should go.