On Sam, 2008-06-14 at 01:07 +0100, Jamie Lokier wrote:
[...]
> You said about too many user-selectable options.  Many large packages

These are IME not a problem if they have somewhat sensible defaults.

> _check_ for many installed libraries.  Get them wrong, and you have
> the same problems of untested combinations.

As long as I can specify that libfoo support must be compiled in (and
thus libfoo must be present) and the tools throw an error if it doesn't
find it, I have no problem.
Otherwise all package builders have a serious problem.

        Bernd
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