Re: pkg / PKG_ADD / arch-dependent

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On 8 Mar 2014, at 10:45, Julien Bect <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> Is there any reason why the PKG_ADD/PKG_DEL scripts located at the root of a 
> package source (.tar.gz) should end up being moved to the arch-dependent 
> subdirectory after installation with "pkg install" ?
> 
> Because this is the behaviour that I currently observe while trying to create 
> my first octave package (Octave 3.8.1 / Ubutu 13.04).
> 
> The documentation here :
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Creating-Packages.html
> 
> doesn't say explicitely where PKG_ADD will be, just that it is "run when the 
> package is added to the users path".
> 
> Does it mean that no assumption should be made about its location ?

Actually I don't like this behaviour either and I don't see a good
reason for it.

Would you like to wor together to define a more useful behaviour?

> @++
> Julien
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