On Mar 3, 2008, at 1:16 PM, Ralph H Castain wrote:
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?
No. This is probably worth a feature request.
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.
This is probably also worth a feature request.
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.
Yep -- all good reasons.
Do we need to do something about this?
Ralph
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