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Re: location of cache dir
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nat Lanza)
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Subject: Re: location of cache dir
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From: Nat Lanza <magus@cs.cmu.edu>
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Love <lha@stacken.kth.se> writes:
> Since /usr might not be avaible at boot-time and later be mounted read-only
> on all systems.
Well, sure, but if your binaries are in /usr, then that cache in /var
really isn't useful without /usr mounted anyway.
The Right Thing is probably just having both '--prefix=' and
'--with-cache-dir=' configuration options, with the cache-dir option
defaulting to somewhere under $prefix. Go for the common case, but
make it easy to adapt to the less common ones.
--nat
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