Re: $ROOTSYS issues for ubuntu package

Thank you both for your help. I had no idea that $ROOTSYS was mutually exclusive with `./configure --prefix=<prefix>`, but assumed that $ROOTSYS == <prefix> if you happened to choose to `make install`.

On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 5:02 PM, Christian Holm Christensen <cholm_at_nbi.dk> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-02-11 at 13:30 -0500, Brett Viren wrote:
> Debian (and by extension - Ubuntu) frowns upon (and with good reason)
> the need to set special environment variables or special values of
> environment variable for package installed programs, etc. to work.
> Debian want applications, etc. to "just work" without the need of
> additional set-up by the end-user - the burden of that is moved to the
> package maintainer (i.e., me).

As it should be.

>> and ask him to move all the contents of /etc/root into /etc?
>
> Imagine how hard it would be to find a configuration file if every
> single package on your system dumped their configuration files into /etc

Indeed, and I'm glad it is not this way. I was only trying to understand why root seemed to want $ROOTSYS to tell it where to find stuff, which it doesn't in this case. Thank you.

Justin Received on Fri Feb 12 2010 - 01:19:21 CET