On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 14:26 +0200, Frank Schafer wrote: > Hi, > > we meet often the (faulty) notion that autoconf/automake (even a couple > of versions on gentoo) is a dependency for packages. > > This is true only for development of these packages itself. > Autoconf/automake provides tools to GENERATE configure scripts. Both are > totally unnecessary to build a package or run the programs it provides. > I've built a full featured LFS system not long ago without even > autoconf/automake installed. > > I'd suggest to remove the build of autoconf/automake from ``emerge > system''. I'd leave all of the autoconf/automake versions in portage > tough for the case someone wants to involve in development of some > package. >
While this is true, you missed the fact that many packages from time to
time apply patches that touches configure.{ac,in}, or Makefile.am, or
just do not come tarballed with configure, etc generated, so it is
indeed needed.
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Martin Schlemmer
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