>>>>> "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Joey> Martin Keegan wrote:
>> I found the toplevel Makefile pretty annoying last time I was building
>> boot-floppies; it called itself recursively with a separate make
>> process, which tended to make make -n and make -j unusable.
>>
>> Is Joey Hess' new installer system doing to do away with the current
>> source tree in its entirety?
Joey> That's really up to the folks who maintain the modules. It should be
Joey> possible for someone to maintain a module themselves if they want, in
Joey> which case the "build system" will be a simple debian/rules plus perhaps
Joey> a makefile -- not unlike any other package.
Please read "Recursive Make Considered Harmful"
<URL:http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/rmch/recu-make-cons-harm.html>
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