> So basically you are saying the ports developers, who have worked very > hard, haven't built things exactly the way you want. > Did I get that right?
Nobody apparently cared about it (neither do I really). It's an idea to be discussed (or not), not a proposal to have an answer right now. > By the way who are you? A happy fairly long time user. > Are you proposing to write a diff which handles all the cases, or > are you offloading a proposal on other people -- a proposal you came > up with in the last hour or so? A couple of years ago or so, it doesn't matter. It was discussed privately and in some forums/lists; and it wasn't me who came up with this idea first, certainly. > More complexity. If would literally take a couple of if's in Makefile for a price of A LOT of saved bandwidth and disk space. Of course it would quadruple the number of packages. > You can seperate things, and a year down the line that seperation > doesn't work anymore. Then it all has to be redone. This can happen with a build system, then it used CMake, now it uses ninja. Or then it relied on GTK+2, now it uses GTK+3. Or Qt. Or Tk. Or previous ./configure no longer exist. -- caóc
