Re: silent installs

[Joakim Tjernlund]

Bob Friesenhahn <address@hidden> wrote on 2010/01/31 18:23:30:
>
> On Sun, 31 Jan 2010, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> >
> > So the question really is whether to make their life harder for
> > making your life easier.
> >
> > I'd like to know what other libtool people think about this, so
> > feedback appreciated.
>
> I think that some people are hypersensitive to seeing build text and
> that changes to behavior should be well-reasoned and based on the
> typical user/developer rather than a hypersensitive one.  In the USA
> we call this using "community standards".
>
> The install step is one of the most dangerous things that I do to my
> system and so I often do 'make -n install' and study what is going on
> before doing the actual 'make install'.  The thought of requesting a
> silent install has never crossed my mind before.

Sort of makes sense when you install to your host but when
install into a DESTDIR as a normal user to later transfer the whole
"image" to another system (embedded in my case) it isn't
such a big deal.