location of cache dir

[Dr A V Le Blanc]

Nat Lanza <magus at cs.cmu.edu> writes:
> So I guess I don't really see why changing the default to /var is a
> good idea.

On Wed, Mar 17, 1999 at 05:29:23AM +0100, Love wrote:
> The real question is how to do it a easy to choose whatever way you want it.
> And do it simple and right on all systems.
...
> Guess you have to do appropriate magic by hand right now when
> building/installing.

I don't quite understand this; for some time I've shifted things to
suit my taste.  I use --prefix=wherever to shift everything except
cache to a suitable location, and --with-arlacachedir=/var/cache/arla
to put the cache in /var.  There _was_ a time when this had problems,
but not for a long time now.  I think there's still some stuff in
kth-kerberos that expects arla in /usr/arla, so I put a symlink there
to the real location.

In short, the standard features already in the code allow you to do
whatever moves you wish to make with little difficulty.

     -- Owen
     LeBlanc at mcc.ac.uk