On Mon, 16 Mar 2009, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > The advantage of the snippet approach is where packages might > break if the builtin defaults are changed will not be broken by the > snippet approach, since the change is opt-in.
Once a package relies on values provided by a Makefile snippet, it might also break when the values provided by the snippet change. Otherwise we lose the advantage of facilitating distribution-wide changes of default build options. I don't see how you reconcile everything. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Contribuez à Debian et gagnez un cahier de l'admin Debian Lenny : http://www.ouaza.com/wp/2009/03/02/contribuer-a-debian-gagner-un-livre/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org