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Hi list, |
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I've some suggestions. Having taken the burden of initial installation I |
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wonder: |
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Why the hick are there so much versions of autoconf (in system)? Well, |
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somewhere in the [Nasty bug..] thread someone (again) mentioned, that |
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different packaged depend on different versions of autoconf. That's NOT |
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the truth for building a package. |
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Autoconf and automake provide tools to CREATE configure scripts. They |
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are completely unnecessary to BUILD or RUN the packages. I've built a |
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full featured LFS system some time ago without autoconf and automake |
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installed at all. |
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It is a good thing to have all these versions in portage for the case |
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someone wants to involve in development of a package, which will be |
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based on some version of the autoconf/automake double but IMHO they |
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shouldn't be part of system and if, then only one (the latest stable ;) |
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version. |
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What you about this? |
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Frank |
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