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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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> Are the any other problems that the Makefile method does not solve/address?

The case of the missing dependency.

If I have package B installed and it depends on package A, but package
A is not installed, then a make will fail at generation of the package
A startup, when instead it should fail the generation of the package B
startup (but still generate a valid rc file).

This was my point about installed-but-not-configure packages.


					Terry Lambert
					terry@lambert.org
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