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Re: [bug-inetutils] src/ layout
From: |
Alfred M. Szmidt |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-inetutils] src/ layout |
Date: |
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 12:33:03 -0400 |
> Notice also that there is a difference between core- and
> inetutils: our configure.ac gives installer a possibility to
> build only a subset of all utilities. The current implementation
> of this is suboptimal, as it was written back ago when Automake
> did not support DIST_SUBDIRS. The latter would greatly simplify
> it, but it relies on each utility residing in its dedicated
> subdirectory.
I'm curious if anyone actually uses that functionality. I suspect
that having switches for just clients / daemons / system tools
would be enough to cover every reasonable use case.
I'm more infavour of removing the whole switch mess... But I suspect
people would lynch me for that ;-)