> Notice also that there is a difference between core- and > inetutils: our configure.ac gives installer a possibility to > build only a subset of all utilities. The current implementation > of this is suboptimal, as it was written back ago when Automake > did not support DIST_SUBDIRS. The latter would greatly simplify > it, but it relies on each utility residing in its dedicated > subdirectory.
I'm curious if anyone actually uses that functionality. I suspect that having switches for just clients / daemons / system tools would be enough to cover every reasonable use case. I'm more infavour of removing the whole switch mess... But I suspect people would lynch me for that ;-)
