On 11/27/05, Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tushar Teredesai wrote:
> > On 11/25/05, Gerard Beekmans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> 1) I consider them part of a well rounded development system.
> >
> > They are only required by pacakge maintainers and I doubt there are
> > many who LFSers who need to use these pacakges. BTW, just because
> > configure checks for it does not mean it is a dependency :)
>
> As Gerard mentioned, they are needed for some BLFS packages to build.

If I remember, there is only one BLFS pacakges that needs it
sgml-common. That pacakge links to autoconf/automake files in
/usr/share which do not exist which requires the regeneration. We can
side-step that by installing the pkg manually.

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