Re: New virtual packages suggestion (make)

1996-08-06 Thread Mr Stuart Lamble
The problem with this approach is that it breaks everything that assumes that make is the GNU make - for instance, the kernel. And probably several debian.rules files. It would probably be a fair assumption to say that make, under Linux, is GNU make: the average user would have this

Re: New virtual packages suggestion (make)

1996-08-02 Thread Warwick HARVEY
Brian C. White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I propose to add the following virtual packages: - gnu-makeuseful for packages like kernel-package and my new compress-package (not yet released) that *need* a GNU make to be used. Do we have (or