ATTENTION: is the way DESTDIR was introduced completely wrong?

[Andrew Pantyukhin]

On 8/15/06, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3 at mail.ru> wrote:
> * I don't think DESTDIR compatibility can be tested automatically, so
>   this would make freebsd user's life easier (user will be sure that after he
>   installs ports into [jail|other freebsd installation mounted via
>   nfs|locally] being set corresponging DESTDIR, nothing will break).
>   Without such variable, he'll never be sure.

Actually, "make install package && make deinstall && pkg_add"
might be an acceptable as a test in many cases.