From: Stuart Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, James Dingwall wrote: > > > Additionally, since many packages are now using the ./configure method to > > configure themselves, it would be nice to know how the current version of the > > This brings up an interesting point. Does it make sense for an LSB complient > application to build itself when installed? This seems like it would > defeate the purpose of shipinga tested/verified executable.
I see very few legitimate reasons to have applications build themselves on installation. Shadow used to have forty zillion compile time options. Chip Rosenthal and I worked to get rid of those by adding the login.defs file. Has anyonen approached the current package maintainers to see about using a similar strategy and dump the recompilation requirement for those which still have it? -- Julie.
