An idea for a new development model

[Jeremy Huntwork]

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 11:34:34AM -0500, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> If something were to be implemented, even a DESTDIR foundation without
> full PM capability, would ruin cut-and-paste capability for the scores
> of readers that don't want the bloat a PM brings into the picture.

Not in the least. If DESTDIR is set to an empty variable, the effect of
the command is the same as usual.

./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make install
is the same as
./configure --prefix=/usr && make && make DESTDIR=$dest install
if $dest is empty

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JH