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

[melodramus]

On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 21:59:35 +0300
Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> wrote:

> Sergey Poznyakoff <address@hidden> ha escrit:
> 
> > > 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.

aehm, i can't really argue for autotools but it seems that --disable
is more restrictive than --enable. other packages choose to offer
--enable=(yes/no/auto) and set the defaults to yes or auto.

> 
> Regards,
> Sergey

best wishes,
MeloDramus <address@hidden>