Re: Behaviour of Build / Configure in GNU programs

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   I'm seeing an increasing number of programs, whose configure and/or
   makefile have been written, to open a connection to some remote url
   (usually controlled by the project) download file(s) from there and
   build them into the software.

   I think this is a bad idea, from many points of view: Scalability,
   Security and Reproducability.  I haven't found any such instances
   in GNU Software, but I think we should put a statement about it in
   the GCS.

Seriously?  Really curious what programs do this totally crazy
behaviour.