William Hubbs <willi...@gentoo.org> said:
> I was told by the brltty developers that localstatedir should be /var.
> I noticed, however, that econf passes --localstatedir=/var/lib to the
> configure script.  The way around this was to pass the --localstatedir
> option to econf.

According to FHS we are doing it right:
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/pub/fhs-2.3.html#VARLIBVARIABLESTATEINFORMATION

I guess what I would really like to know is...why does it matter?  If
something is configurable like that, then it should work regardless of
what is put in.

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