On Tue, 16 Nov 2010 11:09:06 +0100 (CET) Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 2010-11-16 02:59, David Miller wrote: > > > >> Not using something standardized is an affront to distributors, > >> and the build instructions just a sore for the eye: > > > >Making the build take 10 times longer is more of an affront > >than what you accuse iproute2 of doing. > > > >Please do not do this, I absolutely hate working on source > >trees that use this crap! > > > If you like cmake or another build system better, I'd have no problem > with that. Until you make a convincing case that the existing infrastructure is a problem, choosing an alternative solution is bogus. All the fancy build systems are designed to solve the issue of building one piece of software in multiple environments. The iproute2 utilities only work on Linux and so far I haven't had any major complaints from any distribution maintainer about it. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
