* Erik de Castro Lopo wrote on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:42:53PM CEST: > Allan Clark wrote: > > > ugh, maintaining that list could suck, but this is the > > possibility that this kind of step takes in a way that doesn't put the > > maintenance burden onto Autoconf's shoulders. > > My suggestion was intended to put the burden of maintaining this > on the shoulders of whoever maintains configure.ac, not autoconf. IMVHO any kind of repetition of knowledge encoded in rpm and apt (or system vendor X package) databases is not tolerable, if it needs to be hand-maintained in any way. It's just too much data, getting out of date, and too many distributions. Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Autoconf mailing list Autoconf@xxxxxxx http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/autoconf
