[Distutils] prefix in bdist_rpm

Pavel Roskin proski at gnu.org
Thu Feb 23 04:41:27 CET 2006


On Wed, 2006-02-22 at 19:26 -0800, Bob Ippolito wrote:
> > The problem is, it worked without that, so users will report it as  
> > a bug
> > that they cannot install the new version.  Besides, all git related
> > tools are installed under $HOME/bin by default.
> 
> It's a bug that the default installation location is not Python's  
> default installation location.

Then what is the proper use of the "prefix", "exec-prefix" and "home"
options in the install section of setup.cfg?

If those options cannot be used properly, then maybe their support
should be removed?

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Regards,
Pavel Roskin



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