Re: systemd replacement or standardization

[Richard Stallman]

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  > GNOME used to be compiled with Autotools from the GNU project.
  > Now it is based on meson.
  > https://mesonbuild.com/index.html <https://mesonbuild.com/index.html>
  > Iniative:
  > https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting 
<https://wiki.gnome.org/Initiatives/GnomeGoals/MesonPorting>

That is not necessarily a bad thing.  We never made it a standard
that GNU packages must use the Autotools.

The standard we have is that ./configure; make install
should build and install the package.  _How_ they do it
is up to the package maintainers.

Does GNOME implement that spec?


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Dr Richard Stallman
Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
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