Re: [linux-audio-dev] ardour Q

[Mark Constable]

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 14:12, Paul Davis wrote:
> ...
> The problem is that the bookkeeping is based only on what the .spec
> file declares. Since this is never comparable to the kinds of tests
> that ./configure performs, the bookkeeping is inadequate as a way to
> test for compile or run-time prerequisites in all but the simplest of
> cases. It works OK because most programs *are* the simplest of cases.

That's why quite a lot of use Debian instead,
it gets most of these dependencies right which,
as you point out, makes the difference with more
complex projects.

--markc