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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE Development Policy
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-03-09 16:01:01
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On Sat, Mar 09, 2002 at 01:52:38PM +0100, Stefan Gehn wrote:
> Moin,
> 
> On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 13:03, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Fre, 08 M?r 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > - the libtool update does _not_ require an operating system upgrade.
> >   autoconf is a perl and m4 based package of less than 1MB size in source.
> >   compiling and installing it takes less than 5 minutes, it is compilable
> >   out of the box on about each and every broken system you can think of.
> 
> Many people dislike to install perl-based packages because usually it's hard 
> to uninstall them (at least I felt like that with quite some sources using 
> perl). That's why people prefer packaged-versions of things like automake 
> etc.
> 
> >   Furthermore many newer distributions ship it by default anyway.
..
> If you want a newer package of autoconf you usually have tons of dependencies 
> which often lead to updating the whole distro.

Please try the installation before saying things like this; they are (sorry) 
complete bull.  The upgrade I did took more time in downloading then it did 
in .configure && make && su -c "make install"


> Bye, Stefan aka mETz

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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