packages location again

Stephen J. Turnbull stephen at xemacs.org
Wed Jul 19 14:31:10 EDT 2006


>>>>> "dvl" == Didier Verna <didier at xemacs.org> writes:

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

Well, to my mind, a prefix organizes a group of applications, not just
one.  Furthermore, there's no guarantee that you'll find all packaged
components of XEmacs under that prefix, which is something that
"prefix" pretty strongly implies, to me anyway.


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