On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 01:51:22PM -0400, Chuck Robey wrote: [ a rant ] You're completely wrong. Programmers can very well use our system (and they do). The pkgconfig approach is flawed, it doesn't allow for some things we would do. The gnu configure approach is worse. It has a lot of assumptions that are quite wrong, in some times disturbingly so.
If you prefer that approach, go back to using gnu linux. Auto-detecting piles of shit without any user control, or with very poor user control, like GNU configure allows, is a receipe for disaster. It does NOT help the user, contrarily to what you might think.
