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Re: [PATCH] setup -e, --separate-src-dirs option
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 01:05:02 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] setup -e, --separate-src-dirs option
- References: <4EE91238.7020006@t-online.de>
- Reply-to: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 10:16:40PM +0100, Christian Franke wrote:
>Many -src packages install files in /usr/src which have no
>PACKAGE[-VERSION] prefix or substring in file name. This makes it
>difficult to maintain or cleanup larger /usr/src directories.
>
>The attached experimental patch for setup.exe adds option -e,
>--separate-src-dirs. If specified, each PACKAGE-VERSION-src.tar.bz2 is
>installed below /usr/src/PACKAGE-VERSION instead.
If this is really desirable behavior then shouldn't we ask package
maintainers to fix their packages? I don't see why setup.exe should
have to know about this.
cgf