Re: [bug-inetutils] some notes on inetutils-1.8

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   > > if --enable-syslogd works, --disable-syslogd=no
   > > should work too (by convention), like --disable-syslogd should be
   > > substitutable with --enable-syslogd=no.
   > 
   > Yes, that sounds reasonable. I'll fix it.

   Unfortunately, that is impossible. Autotools do not support such usage.

Is that a bug or a featuer? I cannot see why you'd want to use
--disable-FOO=yes/no.... Can someone explain why that is useful?