On August 13, 2003 11:14 pm, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote: > Why is it neccessary to have some many versions of automake and > autoconf...this is ridiculous... :-( > > /usr/bin/automake@ /usr/bin/automake-1.5* /usr/bin/automake-1.7* > /usr/bin/automake-1.4* /usr/bin/automake-1.6* > > /usr/bin/autoconf@ /usr/bin/autoconf-2.13* /usr/bin/autoconf-2.57*
Because various packages were create with differing versions of the auto* tools. It's not really a big deal; all ebuilds that use the auto* tools know which version they need, and choose appropriately. They don't take up much disk space, and you really won't even notice that they're there. Regards, Brian -- Stupidity got us into this mess -- why can't it get us out?
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