ATTENTION: is the way DESTDIR was introduced completely wrong?

[Sergey Matveychuk]

Dmitry Marakasov wrote:
> What I propose is:
> - Change variable naming scheme.
> All *BASE and *DIR vars should be reverted to their original meanings
> (i.e. local paths). Instead, INSTALL_ vars should be introduced:
> INSTALL_LOCALBASE=${DESTDIR}/${LOCALBASE}
> INSTALL_X11BASE=${DESTDIR}/${X11BASE}
> INSTALL_PREFIX=${DESTDIR}/${PREFIX}
> INSTALL_DATADIR=${DESTDIR}/${DATADIR}
> 
> etc. These should be used in do-install target.
> 
> * This is far more clean and understandable, 
> * This allows us to make all ports (around 5k) that define do-install target
>   DESTDIR-compatible (there still may be issues, but nevertheless).
> 

I agree with every your word.

> - Introduce variable DESTDIR_COMPATIBLE to explititely mark
>   DESTDIR-compatible ports.
> * I don't think DESTDIR compatibility can be tested automatically, so
>   this would make freebsd user's life easier (user will be sure that after he
>   installs ports into [jail|other freebsd installation mounted via
>   nfs|locally] being set corresponging DESTDIR, nothing will break).
>   Without such variable, he'll never be sure.
> * Port maintainers will know what ports still are to be converted.
>   Nothing will be forgotten.
> 

This is exactly I proposed. But I've not been heard.

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