>>>>> "Lars" == Lars J Aas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Lars> Sure. Take into account that those are programs you *install*
Lars> on a system!
It makes no difference to me, sorry. It's a program, that's all.
Lars> It's not obvious which package they come from when they are
Lars> installed. You should never actually need to find out which
Lars> package a configure script comes from, because it should be
Lars> obvious from the directory it lies in - the source distribution
Lars> directory for the package. If you find a "configure" program in
Lars> your system $PATH, it's not a configure script.
If you recall, there was once someone who complained about the
behavior of a configure, and posted a configure.in of another
package. Try finding `mutt' in the archive, you should find it.
Lars> Also, you can expect two "a2ps" programs from different packages
Lars> to be "interchangable" in a sense. You can not interchange
Lars> configure from fileutils with configure from textutils - they
Lars> are completely different programs, hence one is now named
Lars> "fileutils configure" and the other is named "textutils
Lars> configure".
I fail to understand why this would imply we should departure from
conventions. This is so unimportant that I can't understand why
amongst all the possible solutions, the standard one should not be
used.
