On Monday 12 September 2005 08:48 am, Frank Schafer wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 08:41 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > On Monday 12 September 2005 08:26 am, Frank Schafer wrote: > > > we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple > > > of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. > > > > not quite sure what you mean by 'faulty', autoconf/automake is used > > heavily throughout portage > > > > > I'd suggest to remove the build of autoconf/automake from ``emerge > > > system''. I'd leave all of the autoconf/automake versions in portage > > > tough for the case someone wants to involve in development of some > > > package. > > > > it wouldnt matter, coreutils for example would still need it which means > > it would show up in `emerge system` > > Hi, as I mentioned, I built LFS without this (and I have coreutils on > it ;)
last i checked, Gentoo != LFS, so i dont really see what your point is we patch source files heavily and regenerate the configure/Makefile.in files in coreutils -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
