On 10/25/2016 05:35 PM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> I forgot to mention that autotools.eclass brings in these dependencies
> as-needed, though, so I agree that they definitely are not required in
> the @system set.
Also keep in mind, they are already not part of @system, the question is
whether to r
On 25/10/16 11:34 AM, Ian Stakenvicius wrote:
> On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote:
>> On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>>> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages?
>>
>> Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball
>> has no d
On 25/10/16 11:05 AM, Nick Vinson wrote:
> On 10/25/2016 07:11 AM, Raymond Jennings wrote:
>> Don't you need autoconf and automake to build a lot of packages?
>
> Theoretically no. When autotools is used correctly, the release tarball
> has no dependency on either. That said, many people don't g
