Re: Autoconf and apt

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Ralf Wildenhues wrote:
> IMVHO any kind of repetition of knowledge encoded in rpm and apt
> (or system vendor X package) databases is not tolerable, if it needs to
> be hand-maintained in any way.  It's just too much data, getting out of
> date, and too many distributions.

I don't understand.  Wikipedia only knows about 242 Linux 
distributions.  What's the big deal?

Of course there are at least five *BSD distributions, maybe five 
OpenSolaris distributions, Darwin, BeOS, AmigaOS, Plan 9, and Oberon. 
Maybe that is what you are worried about?

It seems that the world would be a simpler place if the world could 
standardize on just one distribution such as the one called "Windows 
Vista".  Then we would not need Autoconf.

Cheers,

Bob
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