Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 05:31:34PM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> Il 19/03/2012 17:20, Eduardo Habkost ha scritto:
> > Anyway, even if we decide that package name shouldn't be changed: why
> > changing mandir,
> 
> This one is because all manpages are under /usr/man/manSECT
> 
> > docdir and datadir doesn't require changing the package
> > name, but changing /etc/qemu has to?
> 
> The pedantic answer is "because our meaning of --datadir differ from the
> one of autotools", and it cannot really be changed because it would
> break backwards-compatibility.  However, I guess that's not an entirely
> satisfying answer.
> 
> However, the package name and the directory suffix need not be exactly
> the same.  Why don't you add --with-conf-suffix or something like that,
> and make it apply to both datadir and sysconfdir?

That would work. I don't care about the package name, I just want to
allow the config path to be configured. Why were we all assuming that
the configuration path suffix has to match the package name, in the
first place?

I mean, autotools don't prohibit software from looking at a /etc
subdirectories /etc/PACKAGE, right? Deciding where exactly to look is
out of the scope of autotools, isn't it? It's just configurable Qemu
behavior.

-- 
Eduardo