Re: scsh-install-pkg: build and install

[bkhl@elektrubadur.se (Björn Lindström)]

Michel Schinz <Michel.Schinz@epfl.ch> writes:

> For me it would be very little work. But it would mean that all
> package authors would need to make the distinction between
> "compilation" and "installation". That's one more thing they have to
> worry about,

Not really. You can make it backwards compatible by just adding an
option to just do the build phase (and maybe one to do just the install
phase, if it's tricky to have it decide whether the build phase has been
done or not), and still have the default behaviour be to do it all at
once.