We have several options in configure that take lists as their argument. Yet there appears to be no way for a user to find out valid members for those lists.
For example, we have the option --enable-contrib-no-build. Is there some way that the user and/or sys admin can find out what contributed packages are in this distribution? Do they have to just leaf through the source code, assuming that they know where the contributed packages are stored? Also, is there some way that configure can output "here are the packages I am going to build" in a more concise format than we currently get? I'm not knocking the current output, but it is rather verbose and hard to find just the list of what is going to be built. I'm wondering about this since we now have so many things building by default - if a user wants to -not- build them, they first have to (a) know that they are being built, and (b) figure out how to tell configure not to build them. It isn't very obvious at the moment - at least, not to me, and I'm coming across cases where people are simply mis-configuring the system out of ignorance and/or not realizing what the system is doing. Do we need to do something about this? Ralph
