On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 08:13:25PM +0200, Marc Espie wrote: > Auto-detecting piles of shit without any user control, or with very poor > user control, like GNU configure allows, is a receipe for disaster. > It does NOT help the user, contrarily to what you might think.
See also: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/03/31/packaging.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/04/28/packaging2.html Not perfect, but it mentions a lot of common (avoidable) problems. Ciao, Kili