From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 07:58:51 -0800 > 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. I totally agree. I can't count the amount of times I've seen major source trees invest tons of engineering into things to decrease the pain of using things like automake and libtool. X11 even has a script that basically turns libtool into one big fat NOP, because on Linux everything libtool tries to figure out is completely superfluous. Don't crap up the tree with unnecessary non-sense just for some theoretical gain. Things work just fine right now. -- 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
