From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:34:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F676009.6080009@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F675FAC.5040101@codemonkey.ws>
Il 19/03/2012 17:32, Anthony Liguori ha scritto:
>> I still don't understand why, except that it's a limitation of the build
>> system implementation. If we don't have that restriction, I don't see
>> why this should be restricted by design.
>>
>> Anyway, even if we decide that package name shouldn't be changed: why
>> changing mandir, docdir and datadir doesn't require changing the package
>> name, but changing /etc/qemu has to?
>
> This is simply autotools semantics that we're emulating.
Actually we're not (in the case of datadir).
Paolo
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-03-19 16:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-19 14:47 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/3] Makefile: use $(confdir) instead of hardcoding $(sysconfdir)/qemu Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] qemu-options.hx: refer to confdir instead of sysconfdir on docs Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 14:47 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/3] configure: make full config dir path configurable Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 15:13 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 15:40 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-19 15:14 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 15:31 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 15:34 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 15:43 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 15:59 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 16:09 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 16:03 ` Eric Blake
2012-03-19 16:25 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 16:13 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-19 16:20 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 16:22 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 16:50 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 16:31 ` Paolo Bonzini
2012-03-19 17:02 ` Eduardo Habkost
2012-03-19 16:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2012-03-19 16:34 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
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