From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:36245) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9fXk-0000zI-Rv for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:34:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9fXL-0002dt-KF for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:34:48 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1S9fXL-0002dn-CR for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:34:23 -0400 Message-ID: <4F676009.6080009@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:34:17 +0100 From: Paolo Bonzini MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1332168446-9322-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> <4F674D6E.10708@codemonkey.ws> <20120319153140.GD9375@otherpad.lan.raisama.net> <4F6751EE.2090001@codemonkey.ws> <20120319154319.GF9375@otherpad.lan.raisama.net> <4F675B22.5080604@redhat.com> <20120319162010.GJ9375@otherpad.lan.raisama.net> <4F675FAC.5040101@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4F675FAC.5040101@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/3] add --confdir option to configure List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: Eduardo Habkost , qemu-devel@nongnu.org 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