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On Tue, Jul 9, 2013 at 9:29 AM, Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> wrote:

> Maybe there's a way to make this work since our system is tightly
> integrated.
>
> Have you looked at what happens with autoconf/automake?  How bad does it
> look from that PoV?  Are there a ton of scripts that pull in libutil?  Or is
> that only a small portion of the base?

There are a boatload of autoconf scripts that know libutil is where
you get all the BSD bits.  There's an extensive history here.

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