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From: Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
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On Sat, 6 May 2006, Pav Lucistnik wrote:

> It's also no longer imake, but autotools based.

That is *not* an improvement!

Have you noticed how autoconf has become such a bloated twisted mass of 
goo that it now needs its own configuration tool?  It has become a parody 
of itself.

This is not progress.

--lyndon