What use is WWWDIR_REL?

rflynn at acsalaska.net rflynn at acsalaska.net
Sat Feb 11 01:57:14 UTC 2012


Hi,

>>> Clearly I'm missing something then, because I don't see how they
>>> accomplish anything useful. Perhaps you can enlighten me? There is
>>> nothing in the CVS log that even mentions them, never mind why they were
>>> added (bad portmgr, no cookie!).

In theory they're useful for:
post-install:
     @(cd ${PREFIX} && foo-magic ${WWWDIR_REL} ${DATADIR_REL})

But if this only happens in theory, there's no use in keeping it around.

-- Mel



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