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Date:      Fri, 5 May 2006 20:11:54 -0600 (MDT)
From:      Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ca>
To:        Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>
Cc:        ports@freebsd.org
Subject:   An autoconf bikeshed
Message-ID:  <20060505200804.I49507@orthanc.ca>
In-Reply-To: <1146867318.62735.9.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>
References:  <200605041507.08581.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <200605051346.39823.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <20060505175533.GA3384@xor.obsecurity.org> <200605051414.02384.mi%2Bmx@aldan.algebra.com> <1146867318.62735.9.camel@ikaros.oook.cz>

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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



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