On Friday 02 March 2012 15:44:53 Olaf Lenz wrote: > On 03/02/2012 07:33 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > uhh, Sabayon does have xz-utils and has for quite a long time now. > > after all, it's simply Gentoo at its core, and Gentoo has had > > xz-utils for a long time. > > > > openSUSE has had xz-utils since 11.2. before that, they had > > lzma-utils. > > Sorry if I expressed me wrong: Of course Sabayon and openSUSE provide > xz-utils-packages! However, they are not *installed* by default. This is > no problem when you administrate your own machine, but when you use a > multiuser system administrated by others, it is usually not installed, > and just poses another small obstacle on the path to get autoconf > installed. i don't think that matters. bzip2 is often not installed by default, nor is gcc or g++ or any other development program. i find it hard to swallow that this is even a small obstacle to someone who is installing autoconf manually by fetching the tarball and running configure+make. -mike
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