> - DESTDIR is normally used for this kind of stunt. There's more to FAKE
> than meet the eyes. In reality, recent GNU stuff, for instance, heeds
> DESTDIR.

Mostly. Automake throws in DESTDIR support for free, but gettextize
doesn't. So most recent GNU stuff will obey DESTDIR for everything
except the translated strings files. And in fact, comparing

http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/devel/bison/pkg/PLIST?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

and

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/pkgsrc/devel/bison/pkg/PLIST?rev=1.6&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup

shows that OpenBSD appears to be dropping the .mo files.

> As you said, updating packing-lists is a large part of the chore of
> updating packages, but there ARE good reasons for that. It is incredibly
> easy to miss problems with automatic packing-lists. Problems that become
> glaringly obvious when you check what changes.

Points for irony. ;-)

-- Dan