Allow user install
Simon J. Gerraty
sjg at juniper.net
Tue Jun 26 17:00:29 UTC 2012
On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 11:01:18 -0500, Eric van Gyzen writes:
>INSTALL_OWN is a bit cumbersome. Its name also doesn't cover other
>privileged attributes, such as the schg flag.
>
>I like UNPRIVILEGED_INSTALL or USER_INSTALL. The user can set those to
>tell the build system what he/she wants. The build system can then set
>the other internal variables to make that happen. Those internal
>variables can change over time, but the user will still get the right
>behavior.
>
>The ports system uses INSTALL_AS_USER; the precedent is worth considering.
Thanks - assuming the functionality is wanted, some agreement on the
name of the knob will arise.
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