Remove +with_default_names and use a specific path for unprefixed binaries

Rainer Müller raimue at macports.org
Fri Aug 21 11:08:22 PDT 2009


On 2009-08-21 19:13 , Ryan Schmidt wrote:
> On Aug 21, 2009, at 11:36, Rainer Müller wrote:
>> You would only have to add ${prefix}/gnubin at the front of your  
>> PATH to
>> use the GNU versions.
> 
> ${prefix}/gnubin would be an mtree violation, which we try to avoid,  
> but ${prefix}/libexec/${name} could be reasonable, and has precedent.

I agree that we should avoid mtree violations. Actually the libexec path
is meant for binaries to be run from other binaries but not by the user.
These GNU tools are meant to be run by the user, so they do not really
fit into libexec in my opinion.

Rainer


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