Re: [Fink-devel] hard-coded /sw/ in sources ..

[Max H. <ma...@qu...>]

Am 28.09.2009 um 04:31 schrieb Jean-François Mertens:

> Apparently, several sources have a hardcoded "/sw/" in them,
> which can wreak havoc when there is both a "/sw"  tree on the machine
> and some other fink tree _ could be the private "sw" tree in some
> (possibly non-privileged) user's home dir, or a system-wide "swXY"
> or "/usr/local" tree ...

Do I understand correct, emacs upstream (and other upstreams?)  
explicitly check for a /sw prefix dir?

Wow. On the one hand, one could consider it flattering. On the other  
hand, one could consider this a bug / misbehavior of these packages.  
Regardless of what we do on our side to workaround these packages, I'd  
like to propose contacting upstream of each affected package to try to  
convince them not to do that.



Cheers,
Max