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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:21:14 -0500
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Subject: Re: Default location for src install
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> > They install wherever the tarball says to install them.  We've been
> > following the GNU convention of source tarballs installing in a
> > subdirectory named after the package/version.
> 
> But, DJ, the GNU convention doesn't require that the tarballs are
> unpacked from '/'.  I think the suggestion was
> '/usr/src/package/version/lots-of-files' not '/usr/src/lots-of-files'

No, it's a combination of two conventions - GNU source tarballs always
unpack into ./package-version/*, and setup always unpacks tarballs in /

I don't mind if setup "knows" that source tarballs get unpacked into
/usr/src, but I'd rather not mess with the contents-of-srcball
convention, since keeping it often mean we can use the GNU srcballs
as-is.

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