On 6/4/12 3:06 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> I thought popt was already removed from pkg-config in git? If so, why >> did we add it into the book now instead of at least applying Dan's patch >> to remove that dependency? > > Other packages use popt. If it works (appears to be ok) and can be used > by pkg-config, then we might as well do it. At least that's my conclusion.
Heh, ok. I thought you were the one usually against adding anything extra into LFS. :) Personally, I don't think popt is all that useful. The standard C library provides getopt which is sufficient for most needs. No other current LFS package uses popt - how many packages in BLFS actually use popt? JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
