Hi list, I've some suggestions. Having taken the burden of initial installation I wonder:
Why the hick are there so much versions of autoconf (in system)? Well, somewhere in the [Nasty bug..] thread someone (again) mentioned, that different packaged depend on different versions of autoconf. That's NOT the truth for building a package. Autoconf and automake provide tools to CREATE configure scripts. They are completely unnecessary to BUILD or RUN the packages. I've built a full featured LFS system some time ago without autoconf and automake installed at all. It is a good thing to have all these versions in portage for the case someone wants to involve in development of a package, which will be based on some version of the autoconf/automake double but IMHO they shouldn't be part of system and if, then only one (the latest stable ;) version. What you about this? Frank -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
