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Id: 14969
Status: resolved
Priority: 0/
Queue: String-MFN

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Owner: mdxi [...] cpan.org
Requestors: bda [...] mirrorshades.net
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Severity: Normal
Broken in: 1.26
Fixed in: (no value)



Subject: Default install location for mfn.
By default, mfn installs itself to /usr/bin, which is somewhat non-awesome from a systems perspective. IMO, as it's not part of the system's base, or packaged by the system distribution, it should probably install itself to /usr/local/bin. No doubt a PREFIX could override it, but sane (and obviously what I think is sane is sane, because otherwise it's not sane) defaults are awesome.
New version 1.27 fixes this. MakeMaker's PREFIX is now set to 'usr/local', so that's now the default. You should be able to override this on the comamnd line by doing 'perl Makefile.PL PREFIX=/foo/bar' if my understanding of things is correct.