On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:55:10AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote:
> You can't reliably use zipios to build software with it that uses
> autoconf.
> It may even break software on other archs by overriding the configure
> script.

Well, yes, but do we actually know of any such packages in the archive? I
don't deny that there's a problem, but that it makes the package unusable? It
seems a bit over-the-top.

> As for engima, I'm actually likely to ship a separate copy of zipios
> because of that. There have bad hacks been proposed to work around
> this. 

Mm, I can think of plenty of ugly ones. Not so many pretty ones :-)

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