Chris Staub wrote:
I've built several whole systems without them - everything else builds fine. Of course I don't remember how far I got with them (how much I used them) so I'm not sure how much this means... :p
After I send the email I checked chapter 6's list of dependencies and nothing uses autoconf and automake. Seems whatever used to need them no longer does, so that argument goes flying out of the window.
Good enough for me. I'll shut up about it now. :)
Please don't. Discussions are always welcome, and encouraged. You'll find with a lot of projects, and LFS isn't immune to it, that sometimes there are things that are done because they are always done. The reasons may no longer apply and things should change. People just never like progress so much. That doesn't mean we shouldn't at least explore the possibilities.
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