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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2005 16:09:17
Message-Id: 200508271805.32890@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Saturday 27 August 2005 17:53, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2 > I don't like it. It removes the ability to DEPEND (which you spelt
3 > wrong, btw) upon the correct auto* version.
4 Yeah I know I typoed.
5 About the version.. well you just can't depend upon a specified version
6 anyway.
7 When you depend on whatever autoconf it depends on autoconf-wrapper, that
8 depends on both the version of autoconf we have.
9 The same goes for automake.
10
11 So the version stuff just don't make sense anymore right now...
12
13 --
14 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
15 Gentoo Developer - http://dev.gentoo.org/~flameeyes/
16 (Gentoo/FreeBSD, Video, Gentoo/AMD64, Sound, PAM)

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Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] autotools support eclass Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>