Comment 3 for bug 1162593

"I plan on having a ~/.config/bake/Recipe.conf that all programs will have at their toplevel recipe tree. So inside there you can specify root-directory and override the built-in defaults."

Yes please! I've noticed that existing build systems spend a lot of code on detecting the proper paths to install everything. Wouldn't it be great if each distribution just had a default Bake config with all the variables like location of executable-but-internal files (libexec) defined in there?

Also I assume power users would require managing several profiles, so that they can e.g. install something to their home folder or to a chroot or to /usr/local/ instead of /usr/ simply by specifying a profile that contains the overrides.