autoreconf --flavor ?

[Patrick Guio]

Dear all,
I am using currently autoconf 2.57 and automake 1.7.2.
I find it annoying not to be able to use te nice tool autoreconf without
that all the following files NEWS, README, AUTHORS and ChangeLog should be
present in the current directory. automake has the possibility to disable
that feature with the --foreign option. Why not allow autoreconf to take
in options for the other tools?
Sincerely,
Patrick