From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Kastrup Subject: Re: [PATCH] Makefile: create an install-symlinks target Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:30:08 +0200 Message-ID: <85bqduvo5r.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85lkcyvr4f.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <7vk5sin9g0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: git@vger.kernel.org To: Junio C Hamano X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Jul 30 00:31:12 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1IFHI6-0008U7-TT for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:31:11 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964900AbXG2Wan (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:30:43 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964902AbXG2Wam (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:30:42 -0400 Received: from mail-in-05.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.45]:46537 "EHLO mail-in-05.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964900AbXG2Wal (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:30:41 -0400 Received: from mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net [151.189.8.13]) by mail-in-05.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2814F18B441; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:30:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (mail-in-09.arcor-online.net [151.189.21.49]) by mail-in-01-z2.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19C0012BE98; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:30:40 +0200 (CEST) Received: from lola.goethe.zz (dslb-084-061-017-015.pools.arcor-ip.net [84.61.17.15]) by mail-in-09.arcor-online.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E879A3425E4; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:30:39 +0200 (CEST) Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 9A8641C39595; Mon, 30 Jul 2007 00:30:08 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <7vk5sin9g0.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sun\, 29 Jul 2007 15\:15\:11 -0700") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.91.1/3808/Sun Jul 29 22:05:04 2007 on mail-in-09.arcor-online.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Junio C Hamano writes: > I thought we already rejected the "install symlink" in the > earlier round. Am I mistaken, or are there any compelling new > reasons to revisit it? Uh, perhaps I have a patchy recollection, but what I remember is that Scho argued that one might use something like xstow or a package manager instead, and I replied that a) this required the installation of additional software for a simple task. b) if the software worked using symbolic links, it would not know at what level to make the links (namely create /usr/local/share/man/man1 and link every file from /opt/git/share/man/man1, but link the directory /usr/local/share/git-core directly to /opt/git/share/git-core). I don't remember a conclusive reply to that. Not seeing the patch appear either, I decided to clean it up, remove the objection of using the GNU-specific -mindepth option, and properly document the usage. Since the stuff is strictly an additional convenience not impacting any of the existing targets, I would not have thought it terribly controversial. If I have misinterpreted or misremembered part of the discussion, I apologize. No harm was intended. In any case, some people might want to make use of the polished patch series even if it is not applied to git.git. Is there a place other than the git list where one can provide patches that are not likely to end up in git.git? Thanks, -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum