[racket-dev] package install mode

On 01/05/2013 03:58 PM, Matthew Flatt wrote:
> I have been thinking about how developers who build their own Racket
> are more likely to want installation-wide packages instead of user- and
> version-specific packages. This is particularly true for those of us
> who work from the git respository.
>
> Maybe the default for a build `configure'd without `--prefix' (or, more
> generally, for a non-Unix-style build) should be installation-wide
> package installs, while the default for our pre-built distributions
> should be user- and version-specific installs.
>
> The default mode would be determined by configuration information in
> the installation-specific package area, and something like `raco pkg
> config -i default-mode <mode>' could change an installation's default.
>
> Does this sound like a good idea?

I prefer the current defaults :) . If the user knows what he/she is 
doing, probably also knows how to install software system-wide. In 
Linux/BSD, to use /home/myuser by default for software compiled manually 
is always safer for newbies.