packages location again

[Didier Verna]

Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

>>>>>> "dvl" == Didier Verna <didier at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>     dvl> --with-package-prefix (=/usr/local/share/xemacs) option
>
> That was poorly named; it's not a prefix in the usual sense.

        What's the usual sense for prefix then ? At least, it was coherent
with the --with-site-prefixes option which has been around for quite a while
now (and also quite useful).


> Mike renamed the option. configure --help | fgrep package sez:

        [...]

> Hm.  We seem to have some issues with naming here ...

        You bet :-)


> OK, it's just the help strings. Fixed in CVS.
>
> The DIR argument is the parent of {xemacs,mule,site}-packages, which
> is the same syntax as you were using.

        OK, so IIUC what I was looking for is the --with-system-packages
option. 'don't consider this naming scheme as an improvement, but anyway.

Thanks.

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