On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 04:46:28PM -0800, Will Yardley wrote:
I think the point is that minimizing the build dependencies for people who aren't developers should reduce build problems quite a bit.
In this case it was a practical matter where the user wanted to build Mutt itself, but had auto* packages that were too old. Mutt itself builds on older systems, but the tools to generate the configure script are required to be somewhat up to date (this is due to the newer auto* tools deprecating features that were present in older versions).
