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

[melodramus]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 22:28:34 +0300
Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> 
> > Is that a bug or a featuer?
> 
> Neither. It is simply that --disable-whatever is equivalent to
> --enable-whatever=no, so that giving it an option is in fact
> useless.
> 
> > I cannot see why you'd want to use
> > --disable-FOO=yes/no.... Can someone explain why that is useful? 
> 
> Given what I said above, it is not.

it is useful if you can make use of it! because the configure --help
output displays most options the --disable way, middle-clicking that and
appending a no is faster and less work than writing it all manually the
--enable way. it is also less error prone.


> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

best wishes,
MeloDramus <address@hidden>