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Can we talk about the rude installers not asking for installation locations?

47 points breezk0 | 2 comments | 31 Oct 25 14:16 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Title.

I think it is very rude to just install to any "default" directory and not asks the user where he wants it to be installed.

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diffeomorphism ◴[31 Oct 25 15:02 UTC] No.45772742[source]▶
Weird windows centric view.

There shouldn't even be a question where to put things much less a "wherever you want". Instead you want a sane, sensible standard.

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1. munchlax ◴[31 Oct 25 15:09 UTC] No.45772869[source]▶
There exists makefiles that don't allow DESTDIR, as in

  mkdir derp
  gmake install DESTDIR=$PWD/derp
Distribution maintainers have to patch this :(
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2. zahlman ◴[31 Oct 25 15:13 UTC] No.45772929[source]▶
I'm accustomed to setting this up with `./configure --prefix`.