Re: Autoconf and apt

[Ralf Wildenhues]

* Erik de Castro Lopo wrote on Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 08:42:53PM CEST:
> Allan Clark wrote:
> 
> > ugh, maintaining that list could suck, but this is the
> > possibility that this kind of step takes in a way that doesn't put the
> > maintenance burden onto Autoconf's shoulders.
> 
> My suggestion was intended to put the burden of maintaining this
> on the shoulders of whoever maintains configure.ac, not autoconf.

IMVHO any kind of repetition of knowledge encoded in rpm and apt
(or system vendor X package) databases is not tolerable, if it needs to
be hand-maintained in any way.  It's just too much data, getting out of
date, and too many distributions.

Cheers,
Ralf